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

Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> Tue, 27 October 2020 15:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Guidance on Reporting Protocol Vulnerabilities
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On 10/27/20 5:20 AM, Eliot Lear wrote:
> Hi Roman and thanks for the feedback.  Just on this point…
>
>> On 27 Oct 2020, at 12:56, Roman Danyliw <rdd@cert.org 
>> <mailto:rdd@cert.org>> wrote:
>>
>> [Roman] The text proposed for the vulnerability reporting web page is 
>> longer (and more complex and certainly not KISS), but significantly 
>> less ambitious than yours in scope.  It appear that your concise text 
>> would redefine the IETF culture and process about handling a certain 
>> class of information.  That’s a big step that would require a 
>> comprehensive discussion and deliberate consensus process around it. 
>>  What’s being proposed instead is an initial outreach step with a 
>> “Tao of the IETF”-style prose which explains the as-is process to an 
>> IETF newcomer on reporting vulnerability information – almost no new 
>> process/culture invented (there will be a new email alias which will 
>> act as a final catch all).
>
>
> I certainly didn’t set out to change culture OR process.  How do you 
> think I’ve done that?  Perhaps it sounded as if the mailing list is 
> intended to gate keep?  Certainly not what I had in mind.  Just to 
> route. All the usual processes would still apply to what happens next, 
> and the routing function should not be lossy.
>
So coming in here a bit late, but isn't the basic problem is that 
working groups don't want to hear criticism or take it seriously? So if 
you figure out problems with the protocol it's pushing on string at best 
and snarl inducing at worst. It would be great if working groups were 
receptive to issues, but there is every incentive to ignore or ridicule 
problems. And then of course there is the problem that there may not be 
a working group anymore.

Mike, who has experienced this repeatedly