Re: [i2rs] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-i2rs-protocol-security-requirements-06: (with COMMENT)

Alia Atlas <akatlas@gmail.com> Fri, 19 August 2016 20:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [i2rs] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-i2rs-protocol-security-requirements-06: (with COMMENT)
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Hi Mirja,
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF) <
ietf@kuehlewind.net> wrote:

> Hi Sue,
>
> thanks for addressing my comments!
>
> The only remaining one is if this doc should be published as an own RFC or
> merged with the other requirement documents. I mainly wanted to raise this
> point for discussion and will leave the decision to the responsible AD.


It needs to progress on its own.

Thanks,
Alia



> Mirja
>
>
> > Am 19.08.2016 um 20:15 schrieb Susan Hares <shares@ndzh.com>:
> >
> > Mirja:
> >
> > Thank you for your reply.  I have removed the text regarding RFC4949.  I
> believe version-08.txt resolves these comments.
> >
> > Sue
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF) [mailto:ietf@kuehlewind.net]
> > Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 1:30 PM
> > To: Susan Hares
> > Cc: The IESG; jhaas@pfrc.org; i2rs@ietf.org; i2rs-chairs@ietf.org;
> draft-ietf-i2rs-protocol-security-requirements@ietf.org
> > Subject: Re: [i2rs] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on
> draft-ietf-i2rs-protocol-security-requirements-06: (with COMMENT)
> >
> > Hi Sue,
> >
> > thanks for you replies and background information. Please see further
> below.
> >
> > Mirja
> >
> >> Am 18.08.2016 um 02:15 schrieb Susan Hares <shares@ndzh.com>:
> >>
> >> Mirja:
> >>
> >> Thank you for the review.  Please see the comments below.    Your
> comments are sensible, but the sections were put in place to provide
> background for the multiple working groups utilizing these requirements.
> Please let me know if I can answer additional questions.
> >>
> >> Sue Hares
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: i2rs [mailto:i2rs-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Mirja Kuehlewind
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 4:37 AM
> >> To: The IESG
> >> Cc: jhaas@pfrc.org; i2rs@ietf.org; i2rs-chairs@ietf.org;
> draft-ietf-i2rs-protocol-security-requirements@ietf.org
> >> Subject: [i2rs] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on
> draft-ietf-i2rs-protocol-security-requirements-06: (with COMMENT)
> >>
> >> Mirja Kühlewind has entered the following ballot position for
> >> draft-ietf-i2rs-protocol-security-requirements-06: No Objection
> >>
> >> When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all
> email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this
> introductory paragraph, however.)
> >>
> >>
> >> Please refer to https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.
> html
> >> for more information about IESG DISCUSS and COMMENT positions.
> >>
> >>
> >> The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here:
> >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-i2rs-protocol-
> security-requirements/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> COMMENT:
> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> A few comments:
> >>>
> >>> 1) I don't think copy&paste from RFC4949 is necessary. I would
> recommend to remove this part and just name the definitions that are needed.
> >>>
> >>> Sue: Initially, the WG and the authors ran into problems with security
> words.  We included definitions that seem to resolve issues for the WG and
> those who will need to >implemented in NETCONF/RESTCONF.
> >
> >> I understand that this helped the writing process and discussion in the
> working group. However, I still advise to remove this from the final RFC
> given that readers can easily >check the referred RFC if needed and this
> avoids text duplications (which e.g. makes updates very hard).
> >
> > Sue: I removed the RFC4949 cut and paste in version -08.txt.   Can I
> consider this item closed?
> >
> >>>
> >>> 2) The following sentence seems to indicate that the refernce to
> RFC4949 should be normative.
> >>> "The transfer of data via the I2RS protocol has the property of data
> integrity described in [RFC4949]."
> >>> As I don't think this is needed, I would recommend to rather spell out
> the properties here in this sentence. Also, to be honstest I not sure what
> this sentence tells me at all.
> >>> So maybe stating clearing what you mean (instead of just having the
> reference) would help anyway.
> >>>
> >>> Sue: I have moved RFC4949 to normative.   RFC4949 states data
> integrity means: a) data has not been changed, destroyed or lost in an
> unauthorized (or accidental) manner,
> >>> and b) the information has not been modified or destroyed in an
> unauthorized manner.   This statement covers man-in-the middle attacks or
> unauthorized changes.
> >
> >> Okay. I would still recommend to spell this simply out in the draft
> instead of just giving the reference.
> >
> > Sue: I removed this text.
> >
> >>> 3) To me it's not really clear why there are several requirments docs
> (that also are connected and refer each other; see e.g. section 3.6 and
> SEC-REQ-16).
> >> The actually context of this doc is only 4 pages (3.1-3.6). Couldn't
> those docs be combined to one requirements doc?
> >>
> >> Sue: This is a good process question for a re-use protocol.   A re-use
> protocol has a different process than a protocol created out of a single WG.
> >>
> >>> I2RS broke the requirements into pieces so that as we got agreement on
> one piece, the NETCONF/RESTCONF team could begin to work on that piece.
> >>> For example, the pub/sub requirements (RFC7923) is already being
> worked on in NETCONF.
> >>> The I2RS ephemeral state requirements have been delayed by the
> NETMOD/NETCONF discussions on opstate.
> >>> If the IESG wishes, after we have completed this work, we can compile
> these requirements into a single document.
> >>> This process focuses on running code and rough consensus rather than a
> single review process for the IESG.
> >
> >> Thanks that's very useful background information. However, even though
> I’m happy to hear that this process worked well, the question for
> >> final publication in one or multiple RFCs is if there is a benefit for
> the final reading audience.
> >> Given that these docs are rather short so could be well structured in
> one RFC and have interdependencies I don’t see this benefit.
> >> I’d rather would assume that a reader would anyway need to look at
> multiple docs in any case which would suggest to have one doc.
> >
> > This is a non-normative section:
> >
> > Perhaps I was unclear.  The final reading audience includes the
> following: NETCONF WG, NETMOD WG,  vendors, prototype implementers, and
> operators.
> > The final audience review begins as soon as you approve it.  The
> NETCONF/NETMOD WG will not consider it real until it is an RFC.
> > In a re-use protocol, we can begin work as soon as you approve the
> requirements.
> >
> >>> Given that these docs are rather short so could be well structured in
> one RFC and have interdependencies I don’t see this benefit.
> >>> I’d rather would assume that a reader would anyway need to look at
> multiple docs in any case which would suggest to have one doc.
> >
> >> As you’ve been mention the IESG review process, I’d like to comment on
> this. There is some discussion in the IESG about how to treat different
> documents differently as they
> >> might need a different level of review (and consensus). However, from
> my perspective the main goal is to speed up the publication process. For me
> the workload is basically the > same no matter if I read 3 drafts with 15
> pages each or 1 draft with 45 pages. So with respective to this discuss the
> question for me would rather be if this doc
> >> must be published at RFC at all: Does a document provide valuable
> information for future readers or is it just a documentation of the wig’s
> working process?
> >> We in the IESG didn’t conclude this discussion and therefore I did not
> and am not intending to ask this question regarding this document.
> >
> > This is a meta-question on IESG process.  And off-topic to the review of
> the document.  In your consider of the solution, I think you need to
> reconsider the re-use protocols as different than other protocols.  This
> document must be published as an RFC or we cannot get NETCONF/NETMOD WG to
> expand their protocols to include I2RS Features.
> > The Pub/SUB work in NETCONF/RESTCONF needs these requirements finalizer
> to make progress.  Fast approval of the requirements for a re-use protocol
> is critical to the WG trying to re-use a protocol.
> >
> >> 4) Section 3.1 says:
> >> "The I2RS architecture [I-D.ietf-i2rs-architecture] sets the following
> requirements:"
> >> Why is this needed is RFC7921 already sets these requirements?
> >>
> >> Sue:  What a logical and rational statement, but unfortunately this
> assumption ran into problems in the working groups (NETMOD/NETCONF) who
> reviewed the requirements.  >Therefore, this section is there to provide
> explicit definitions that resolved inter-group (I2RS to NETCONF and I2RS to
> NETMOD) questions on lists.
> >> _____________________________________________
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> >
> >
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