Re: Tsvart last call review of draft-ietf-dmm-pmipv6-dlif-04

CARLOS JESUS BERNARDOS CANO <cjbc@it.uc3m.es> Sat, 02 November 2019 11:45 UTC

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From: CARLOS JESUS BERNARDOS CANO <cjbc@it.uc3m.es>
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:45:00 +0100
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Subject: Re: Tsvart last call review of draft-ietf-dmm-pmipv6-dlif-04
To: Joerg Ott <jo@acm.org>
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Hi Joerg,

We've just posted a new revision addressing your comments.

Thanks,

Carlos

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 1:24 PM CARLOS JESUS BERNARDOS CANO <cjbc@it.uc3m.es>
wrote:

> Thanks a lot Joerg for your very comprehensive review.
>
> We will carefully look at your comments and provide responses (with
> proposals of text changes) in the next few days. I prefer to take some time
> to properly address all your points.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Carlos
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 10:49 PM Joerg Ott via Datatracker <
> noreply@ietf.org> wrote:
>
>> Reviewer: Joerg Ott
>> Review result: Ready with Issues
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> this document has been reviewed as part of the transport area review
>> team's
>> ongoing effort to review key IETF documents. These comments were written
>> primarily for the transport area directors, but are copied to the
>> document's
>> authors and WG to allow them to address any issues raised and also to the
>> IETF
>> discussion list for information.
>>
>> When done at the time of IETF Last Call, the authors should consider this
>> review as part of the last-call comments they receive. Please always CC
>> tsv-art@ietf.org if you reply to or forward this review.
>>
>> The draft defines extensions to Proxy Mobile IPv6 to support a more
>> distributed
>> variant of mobility management. In essence, as a mobile node moves from
>> one
>> point of attachment (Mobility Anchor and Access Router, MAAR) to the next,
>> its routing prefix with the previous MAAR(s) remain(s) and ongoing
>> transport
>> layer connections remain active and routed indirectly via the previous
>> MAAR,
>> while new ones will use the present MAAR. The interactions of MAARs are
>> managed via a Central Mobility Database (CMD).
>>
>> The draft is well written and good to follow, describing the protocols and
>> extensions clearly. I just have two transport-specific concern and two
>> general
>> operational issues that require further clarification in the draft.
>>
>> The transport issues:
>>
>> T1. Section 3.2. When the CMD acts as a relay for Proxy Binding Updates
>> (PBUs)
>> and Proxy Binding Acts (PBAs), the CMD may act as a relay of a single PBU
>> to
>> multiple previous MAARs. If multiple previous MAARs exist, say k, (and
>> there
>> may be numerous in case of many fast handovers, e.g., with vehicular
>> networks),
>> the CMD creates k outgoing packets from a single incoming packet. This
>> bears
>> a certain amplification risk (which may also need to be addressed in the
>> security
>> considerations section) but it also may lead to packet bursts originated
>> from the
>> CMD, albeit to different targets. Other protocols start introducing
>> pacing to avoid
>> bursts on the outgoing link, even if the packets do take different paths
>> in the end.
>> This may be worthwhile considering.
>>
>> T2. Also in section 3.2, when relaying PBAs, the CMD serves as a
>> transport or
>> application endpoint and should have a way to deal with missing responses
>> (after all, this is a connectionless protocol on top of an unreliable
>> Internet).
>> A timeout is only mentioned for aggregation, but even there there the
>> timeout
>> is not specified, nor is a reference to, e.g., RFC 5213 or so to infer a
>> timeout
>> used elsewhere.
>>
>> General issues:
>>
>> G1. Section 3.2 (again) specifies that responses are aggregated on p.10.
>> How
>> does response aggregation work? How is error handling done?
>>
>> Moreover, also on p.10, further below the draft states that if a timer
>> expires,
>> the requests already received are forwarded. The missing ones come later.
>> This seems to contradict aggregation because the originator (the currently
>> server MAAR) does not expect more than a single response if it sent out a
>> single update. This may thus require updated processing in the MAAR.
>>
>> G2. Sect. 3.3 suggests that PBAs could be sent straight from the previous
>> MAAR
>> to the current MAAR. How does this work if security associations are
>> supposed
>> to be applied? It would seem that, when following the security
>> considerations,
>> such cases are not covered. At least, this would warrant further
>> explanation as
>> in this case we suddenly have three involved security associations, which
>> would
>> also need to be established.
>>
>> G3. Sect 3.5 discusses deregistration and suggests that this can only be
>> done by
>> timeout; I understand the rationale but can any risks arise on continued
>> resource
>> consumption (DoS attacks)?
>>
>> G4. Sect. 6.: As alluded to above, the security considerations may need
>> expanding.
>>
>> Nits:
>> p.12: "information are" -> "information is"
>> p.12: "influence on" -> "influence"
>>
>>
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