Re: [mile] Secdir review: draft-ietf-mile-rfc5070-bis-22

kathleen.moriarty.ietf@gmail.com Wed, 01 June 2016 14:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [mile] Secdir review: draft-ietf-mile-rfc5070-bis-22
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Thanks, Robert for the review and re sending it.

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> On Jun 1, 2016, at 9:32 AM, Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> wrote:
> 
> Retransmitting to fix a typo in the Subject to make this easier to find when searching on the draft name.
> 
> Apologies for the extra noise.
> 
> 
>> On 5/30/16 2:43 PM, Robert Sparks wrote:
>> I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's
>> ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the
>> IESG.  These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the
>> security area directors.  Document editors and WG chairs should treat
>> these comments just like any other last call comments.
>> 
>> Document : draft-ietf-mile-rfc5070bis-22
>> 
>> Summary: This document has minor issues that should be addressed before publication as Proposed Standard
>> 
>> This document defines a document format for exchanging information between
>> operational security teams. It points out standardized mechanisms for
>> transporting the documents (RFC6545 and RFC6546), to provide confidentiality,
>> integrity, and authenticity, but does not restrict the use of the format to
>> within those protocols.  Instead, it provides a generic set of "Processing
>> Considerations" in section 4, which are augmented by the Security
>> Considerations in section 9.
>> 
>> There are some minor issues with this approach that should be addressed before
>> publication.
>> 
>> 1) The document requires that implementations validate documents against the
>> schema, and reject any documents that fail validation.  In particular, Section
>> 5.2 Item 4 requires rejecting documents with an unrecognized element in a
>> supported namespace as a syntax error. Section 4.3 requires implementations to
>> ->dynamically generate the schema used for validation from IANA registries<-.
>> Section 5.2 Item 5 calls out that this dynamic generation has security and
>> performance implications, but does not describe them, and has a very vague
>> "SHOULD NOT download schemas at runtime" to guard against them.  I seem to
>> recall significant discussion in other contexts of the issues with generating
>> schema from IANA registries at runtime.  Perhaps the ADs can provide pointers
>> to material generated from those discussions that the group can reference