Genart last call review of draft-ietf-isis-auto-conf-04

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

Reviewer: Robert Sparks
Review result: Ready with Issues

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Document: draft-ietf-isis-auto-conf-04
Reviewer: Robert Sparks
Review Date: 2017-04-07
IETF LC End Date: 2017-04-10
IESG Telechat date: 2017-04-13

Summary: Ready for publication as Proposed Standard, but with 
one possible thing to add to the security consideration section

This document is clear and seems straightforward to implement. 

I think, however, there is an attack possibility you should call out 
in the security considerations section. As home routers are used 
as examples of elements that might use this protocol, consider 
the case of a malicious party wanting to deny service in that home.
A suborned device in the home could watch for the protocol, and
present a crafted packet to force the home router(s) to re-start
the autoconfiguration protocol continually (by claiming to be a
duplicate and being careful to make it the routers job to restart).
Having the md5 password configured would mitigate this attack.