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

Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com> Thu, 09 April 2015 04:59 UTC

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From: Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com>
To: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-6man-resilient-rs-05: (with COMMENT)
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Hi Stephen,
   Thanks for your comment.

On 04/08/2015 11:53 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
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> COMMENT:
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>
> 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