Re: Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-6man-resilient-rs-05: (with COMMENT)

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 09 April 2015 09:49 UTC

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Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 10:49:11 +0100
From: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-6man-resilient-rs-05: (with COMMENT)
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That seems fine, thanks,
S

On 09/04/15 05:58, Suresh Krishnan wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>    Thanks for your comment.
> 
> On 04/08/2015 11:53 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> COMMENT:
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> security considerations: I note that RFC 4861 has been
>> updated, including by RFC 5942, which specifically says it
>> addresses a security concern in 4861. (I didn't check the
>> others.) I think it'd be better to say here "beyond those
>> discussed in [RFC4861] and RFCs that update that" or some
>> such. Or point to all the relevant ones, or tell me that it
>> doesn't matter for this:-)
> 
> Makes sense. Even though the security concerns from RFC5942 do not 
> directly apply to the mechanism proposed in this document, there are 
> other security updates to RFC4861 in the pipeline in 6man that may 
> apply. Will include this phrase in the next rev.
> 
> Regards
> Suresh
> 
>