Re: [Hipsec] Stephen Farrell's Discuss on draft-ietf-hip-rfc5203-bis-10: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Julien Laganier <[e-mail]>]

Thanks, Stephen.

The HIP WG was CC'd on these emails so participants have seen the
proposal, I will seek their feedback in a separate note.

Best,

--julien

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:22 AM, Stephen Farrell
<[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Hiya,
>
> That'd be fine for clearing my discuss.
>
> I'd encourage you to also get feedback from the WG though as I
> don't think I've ever seen a list of cert handling errors that
> was correct first time around:-)
>
> Cheers,
> S.
>
>
>
> On 20/07/16 16:11, Julien Laganier wrote:
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> Thanks for reviewing the document.
>>
>> I think there would be value in making the cause of certificate error
>> explicit. Would the following change be acceptable?
>>
>> OLD:
>>
>>    If the certificate in the parameter is not accepted, the registrar
>>    MUST reject the corresponding registrations with Failure Type [IANA
>>    TBD] (Invalid certificate).
>>
>> NEW:
>>
>>    If the certificate in the parameter is not accepted, the registrar
>>    MUST reject the corresponding registrations with the appropriate
>>    Failure Type:
>>    [IANA TBD] (Bad certificate): The certificate is corrupt, contains
>> invalid signatures, etc.
>>    [IANA TBD] (Unsupported certificate): The certificate is of an
>> unsupported type.
>>    [IANA TBD] (Certificate expired): The certificate is no longer valid.
>>    [IANA TBD] (Certificate other): The certificate could not be
>> validated for some unspecified reason.
>>    [IANA TBD] (Unknown CA): The issuing CA certificate could not be
>> located or is not trusted.
>>
>> Please let us know.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> --julien
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Stephen Farrell
>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> Stephen Farrell has entered the following ballot position for
>>> draft-ietf-hip-rfc5203-bis-10: Discuss
>>>
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>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> DISCUSS:
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> 3.3 - This fails to distinguish between an invalid
>>> certificate (e.g. bad signature, unknown signer) and one
>>> that is valid, but is not acceptable for this purpose.  I
>>> don't get why that is ok for HIP, can you explain?  If it
>>> is ok, I think you need to say so. If it is not ok (as I'd
>>> suspect) then you appear to need to change text or one more
>>> new error code.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> COMMENT:
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> Section 7 - I'm fine that this doesn't repeat stuff
>>> from 5203, but a sentence saying to go look there too
>>> would maybe be good. (I'm not sure if that would fix
>>> Alexey's discuss or not. If not, then ignore me and
>>> just talk to him about his discuss.)
>>>
>>>
>