Re: WGLC - draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming

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On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 12:15 PM <bruno.decraene@orange.com> wrote:
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> This email starts a two weeks Working Group Last Call on draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming [1].
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I will happily admit that I haven't been following the discussions, so
apologies in advance - I'm guessing I'm missing something really
obvious, so please point me at other documents / email threads where
this has already been answered...

RFC5095 deprecated IPv6 RH0 due to some serious security issues - it
was possible for an attacker to send traffic containing "instructions"
to make a packet ping-pong between two interfaces, steer it down
specific links, etc.

It feels to me like this re-introduces similar (and potentially more
scary) issues -- what's to stop an attacker spoofing traffic
containing a bunch of SIDs which decapsulate, push a packet into
another FIB, End.DT2M, etc?

I went to look in the Security Considerations section, but, well, the
document doesn't seem to have one?...
The word Security appears 3 times in the document - one in the section
title ("7. Basic security for intra-domain deployment"), once in the
Index, and once simply punting the reader to Section 5.1 of the SRH
document ("Future documents will detail inter-domain security
mechanisms for
 SRv6 ").

Expecting *everyone* who deploys this to perfectly apply filters which
blocks ingress traffic everywhere where a packet could enter a domain
feels like an accident just waiting to happen
Again, I'm guessing that I'm missing something obvious, and that the
entire security isn't premised on that - please point me to where this
is addressed.

"With great power comes great responsibility"
    -- sudo, via Peter Parker.

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> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming-05
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idea in the first place.
This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing
regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair
of pants.
   ---maf