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

Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net> Wed, 28 October 2020 17:27 UTC

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From: Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net>
To: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
Cc: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>, Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com>, The IETF List <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Guidance on Reporting Protocol Vulnerabilities
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:27:17 -0500
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On 28 Oct 2020, at 12:00, Eliot Lear wrote:

> This is where I think there may be some subtle issue, and I don’t 
> want to make this all about Mike.  Many researchers have no equities 
> in our organization.  They may not even have a fix available for the 
> very problem that they have found.  We have red teams for a reason: 
> it’s just a different muscle.  So they see their job as finished 
> when they’ve reported.  And then they’re on to the next thing. 
>  That’s their incentive model.  Mike just happens to care more 
> than most, but we shouldn’t optimize around him.

Lest there be any question: I completely agree with you on the above 
Eliot. The proposal on the table from the IESG that Roman posted is a 
great start into how to deal with exactly those researchers you are 
talking about, and I fully support the idea. I don't want those folks to 
have to wade through the rest of IETF process if they have no intention 
to be part of the whole kit and caboodle of WG protocol development. The 
one and only thing I was responding to was Mike's analysis of the core 
problem based on his personal experiences. He is not like one of those 
researchers in that he does participate in the IETF as a regular 
participant, and we should absolutely not be optimizing around the cases 
he's concerned with.

pr
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