Re: AD Review of draft-ietf-httpbis-client-cert-field-04

[Brian Campbell <[e-mail]>]

Thanks Francesca,

Some followup comments/questions are inline below.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 9:42 AM Francesca Palombini <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> # AD Review of draft-ietf-httpbis-client-cert-field-04
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> cc @fpalombini
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> Thank you for this document.
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> No major comments from me, only one comment around a normative MUST and
> some nits, which you can address together with any other last call comments.
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> I also note that the consensus of the wg is for it to be informational,
> which is fine since I understand this document is meant to be the reference
> specification for two IANA registrations that are "specification required",
> but it read to me as a standard track doc. As the wg has discussed and
> gotten consensus around informational, I don't expect any change, just
> bringing it up one last time before LC since I expect there might be more
> comments in LC and IESG eval.
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> ## Comments
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> ### MUST prevent unintended use
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> Section 4:
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> > Therefore, steps MUST be taken to prevent unintended use, both in
> sending the header field and in relying on its value.
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> This might simply be a formulation problem, but when I read it I am not
> sure this is a MUST the reader will know how to implement.
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The idea with that sentence was that the 'how' is described in the rest of
the section. The keyword MUST probably isn't appropriate there. And a bit
more context might be useful too. Would changing it to this sentence
address that formulation problem? Or maybe I'm missing your point...

"Therefore, steps such as those described below need to be taken to prevent
unintended use, both in sending the header field and in relying on its
value."


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> ## Nits
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> ### Editorial nits
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> Section 4:
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> > The configuration options and request sanitization are necessarily
> functionally of the respective servers.
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> s/necessarily functionally/necessary functions ?
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Either works I think :) But I'll change it.



> ### Considerations considered
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> Funny title for Appendix B :) Where are the considerations not considered?
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It was actually intended to be somewhat humorous. :)  I was trying to
convey something like "these are some things that were considered" to
hopefully avoid questions about whether they'd been considered. Kind of
like a FAQ for the general approach taken by the document. Also I didn't
feel great about other potential titles there. But I can see how the title
doesn't look great. I know this sounds silly but I'm not sure what the
section title should be. Maybe "Document Considerations" "General
Considerations" or "Design Considerations"? Or something else that I'm not
able to think of?



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