Re: [Pearg] Review of draft-irtf-pearg-numeric-ids-generation-01

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

Hello, Shivan,

On 14/5/20 02:45, Shivan Sahib wrote:
> 
> I did a quick review of 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-pearg-numeric-ids-generation-01 (with 
> no hat on). It would be great to see more reviews though.
> 
> I opened a PR addressing some of the nits I found here: 
> https://github.com/fgont/numeric-ids/pull/1

Thanks a lot for this! FWIW, I've merged it, and rev'ed the document.



> Generally, I found the analysis comprehensive. One small comment is that 
> there should probably be a reference for "... some popular operating 
> systems (notably Microsoft Windows) still fail to implement transport 
> protocol ephemeral port randomization... " in Section 4.

Will do.




> Also I might just be missing it, but I didn't find any description 
> (through reference or otherwise) of the negative effects of predictable 
> DNS TxIDs in either this document or 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-pearg-numeric-ids-history-02.

We had mid-way a whole section on the DNS TxID, although I wasn't sure 
it would add much.

I'll do this, I'll give it a shot at having a similar timeline ofr the 
TxID. If I feel it's useful, I'll incorporate it. Otherwise, at the very 
least we'll provide some references/pointers for the implications of 
predictable TxIDs.

Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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