[Gen-art] RE: Gen-ART LC Review of draft-ietf-smime-bfibecms-07.txt

Luther,

	I apologize if I should know this, but I do not.  Have
you posted a revised draft?

--
Eric Gray
Principal Engineer
Ericsson  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luther Martin [mailto:martin@voltage.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:10 PM
> To: Eric Gray; Mark Schertler
> Cc: Tim Polk; gen-art@ietf.org
> Subject: RE: Gen-ART LC Review of draft-ietf-smime-bfibecms-07.txt
> Importance: High
> 
> Comments in-line. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric Gray [mailto:eric.gray@ericsson.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:20 AM
> > To: Luther Martin; Mark Schertler
> > Cc: Tim Polk; gen-art@ietf.org
> > Subject: Gen-ART LC Review of draft-ietf-smime-bfibecms-07.txt
> > 
> > Authors,
> > 
> > I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART)
> > reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see
> > http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html).
> > 
> > Please resolve these comments along with any other Last 
> Call comments
> > you may receive.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Document:
> > 
> > "Using the Boneh-Franklin and Boneh-Boyen identity-based
> >  encryption algorithms with the Cryptographic Message Syntax"
> > (draft-ietf-smime-bfibecms-07.txt)
> > 
> > Reviewer:         Eric Gray
> > Review Date:      10/25/2007
> > IETF LC End Date: 10/25/2007
> > 
> > Summary:
> > =======
> > 
> > This draft is almost ready for publishing as a Proposed Standard.
> > 
> > I have some questions and comments below.
> > 
> > Comments:
> > ========
> > 
> > Question: In the second bullet, of section 1.2 on page 3, what
> > does the expression "secure distribution" mean?  Is the PPS an
> > authenticate-able source, does it only distribute the "publicly
> > sharable cryptographic material" to authenticated recipients or
> > does it use secure connections in the distribution process?
> 
> Changed to reflect this comment.
> 
> > 
> > From the discussion in section 7.1 (second paragraph), it looks
> > as if a PPS is an authenticate-able source.  Should this be
> > stated more clearly?
> 
> Changed to reflect this comment.
> 
> > ________________________________________________________________
> > 
> > [DER] is listed as an informative reference, yet text on page
> > 5 says -
> > 
> > "the structure MUST be DER encoded [DER] ..."
> > 
> > This should warrant a Normative reference, since it seems it
> > is necessary to have this information in order to implement
> > the step described in this text.
> > 
> > A similar argument can be made for each of the following:
> > 
> > 	ASN1 (see reference toward the top of page 3)
> > 	IBCS (see references at the top of page 8)
> > 	IBE (see - in particular - process step references -
> > 		section 4, bullet 1, page 7
> > 		section 5, bullets 3 through 5, page 8)
> > _________________________________________________________________
> > 
> 
> Changed to reflect this comment.
> 
> > 
> > NITs:
> > ====
> > 
> > There are format problems (premature line-wrap) that should be
> > fixed prior to publication (this probably can be handled as an
> > RFC Editor's note).  See, for example, numbered bullets on page
> > 6 (number 2 in the first set, and number 4 in the second).
> 
> Changed to reflect this comment.
> 
> 


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