Re: Call for Community Feedback: Guidance on Reporting Protocol Vulnerabilities

Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org> Thu, 19 November 2020 01:47 UTC

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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:47:33 -0800
From: Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org>
Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Guidance on Reporting Protocol Vulnerabilities
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   Hi Roman,

On 11/4/20 9:31 AM, Roman Danyliw wrote:
> Hi Dan!
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roman Danyliw
>> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2020 7:51 PM
>> To: 'Dan Harkins' <dharkins@lounge.org>; ietf@ietf.org
>> Subject: RE: Call for Community Feedback: Guidance on Reporting Protocol
>> Vulnerabilities
>>
>> Hi Dan!
>>
>> Thank you for the feedback!
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ietf <ietf-bounces@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Dan Harkins
>>> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2020 12:52 AM
>>> To: ietf@ietf.org
>>> Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Guidance on Reporting
>>> Protocol Vulnerabilities
>>>
>>>
>>>     Howdy,
>>>
>>>     Not all RFCs are the product of a working group so I think the
>>> section dealing with "Expectations from the IETF" should address what
>>> the IETF feels it should do wrt to RFCs published by the IETF that
>>> were not products of a working group. The existing text seems to only
>>> address issues with RFCs that were the produce of a (possibly closed)
>>> working group. This probably has an influence on Figure 1 too-- to be
>>> specific, before the decision of "4" there should be a decision on the
>>> question of whether this is about an RFC that the IETF feels it needs to
>> address.
>>
>> Good point.  Let me figure out how to best finesse the existence of AD
>> sponsored documents, without adding too much (more) complexity.
>>
>> Regardless of the editorial approach, let me know if the possible end states
>> aren't "errata" (8) or "using the general alias" (10), perhaps with a trip through
>> "is there an active working group on the topic" (3).
> Please see the revised text to address a workflow for individual submission:
>
> https://github.com/ietf/vul-reporting-guidance/commit/9698c728b900307f74a2649720755b35c6b0523b
>
> Let me know if this doesn't address your feedback.

   Yes, this does address my comment and I would be happy with this. 
That said,
I think it might be possible to slightly improve things if there was the 
possibility
of a WG looking at fixing an RFC that had been an individual draft. I'm 
thinking of
something like an EAP method that an individual submission. If we can't 
find the
author or the author doesn't care it might make sense to ask EMU if this is
something they might want to look at fixing. In figure 1 I'm thinking of 
maybe
a decision box above 7 that could get the flow into 6 and not terminate 
a 7 if
there's a WG willing to deal with the issue.

   But as I said, I'm happy with what you have so if you want to ignore 
my additional
comment I would be fine with that.

   regards,

   Dan.

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