Re: [MLS] Erik Kline's No Objection on draft-ietf-mls-protocol-17: (with COMMENT)

Erik Kline <ek.ietf@gmail.com> Tue, 31 January 2023 19:22 UTC

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From: Erik Kline <ek.ietf@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 11:21:57 -0800
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Subject: Re: [MLS] Erik Kline's No Objection on draft-ietf-mls-protocol-17: (with COMMENT)
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Thanks; LGTM

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 6:51 AM Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> wrote:
>
> I filed a PR for these changes:
>
> https://github.com/mlswg/mls-protocol/pull/849
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 9:10 AM Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Erik,
>>
>> Thanks for the review.  A couple responses inline below...
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 2:25 AM Erik Kline via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> ## Comments
>>>
>>> * Thank you very much for all of the explicitly worked examples.
>>
>>
>> They were helpful in the WG discussions as well :)
>>
>>
>>> ### S7.3
>>>
>>> * What is the reason for MUST vs RECOMMENDED difference in the two different
>>>   circumstances when validating the `lifetime` field?
>>
>>
>> The reason is asynchronicity.  The protocol anticipates that there may be some time between when a message is sent and when it is received, during which time the KeyPackage might have expired.  So the WG felt that having a hard requirement on the receive side would cause undue complexity in light of this requirement.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> * Consider adding a platitude about communicating nodes SHOULD use some
>>>   method of time synchronization...
>>
>>
>> Good idea, thanks.
>>
>>>
>>> ## Nits
>>>
>>> ### S3.2
>>>
>>> * "top of these basic mechanism" -> "top of these basic mechanisms"
>>>   (or maybe "top of this basic mechanism")
>>>
>>> ### S6.3.1
>>>
>>> * "in an PrivateContentTBE structure" -> "in a PrivateContentTBE structure"
>>
>>
>> Can you tell we changed the names of these structs late in the process?  :)
>>
>> Best,
>> --Richard