Re: [Iotops] Error categories in constrained IoT authentication

Göran Selander <goran.selander@ericsson.com> Tue, 23 February 2021 11:08 UTC

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From: Göran Selander <goran.selander@ericsson.com>
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Subject: Re: [Iotops] Error categories in constrained IoT authentication
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Thanks Michael, a question below.

On 2021-02-16, 18:30, "Michael Richardson" <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:

        mcr>     I think that there is a sweet spot where we could get enough
        mcr> information to do further investigation, while not blasting useless
        mcr> information around.

        GS> Exactly this was the intent with the draft error categories A-G in my
        GS> previous mail. Are they doing a good job?

    mcr> They get close, but they only describe complete failures, and they may need
    mcr> to announce intermediate progress, or even failures to even begin.

[GS]  Could you give some example of "failure to begin", and "announce intermediate progress" which illustrates missing top level categories? 

* I can see that category D (access denied, credential valid but peer not allowed access) -  is announcing intermediate progress since it denies error of category C (credential error). 

* Intermediate progress could also be incorporated in sub-categories. For example, if we define :

A.1 Syntax error
A.2 Incorrect protocol field.

then A.2 indicates intermediate progress because to be able to determine incorrect protocol field at least some part of syntax needs to be correct.

Thanks 
Göran