[Rats] Paul Wouters' No Objection on draft-ietf-rats-architecture-21: (with COMMENT)

[Paul Wouters via Datatracker <[e-mail]>]

Paul Wouters has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-rats-architecture-21: No Objection

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Thanks for the document. A few comments only.

#1 Figure 3

I cannot make sense of Figure 3. I understand the text in Section 3.2, so it
might not matter. But for instance the figure does not show to me at all that
the bootloader attested the kernel.

#2 Dark sides

Obviously, this architecture can be misused for bad things. It might be nice to
have a section on this as per RFC 8280, but I am also not sure what to say
other than "don't use this to restrict people based on discriminatory features".

#3  IPR

I am a little concerned about the IPR claims filed. Intel reserves the right to
charge, and Huawei only allows free use for Section 4.3 and 6 despite that
there is no Section 4.3 and it makes little sense for Section 6 ? I also
believe that this document merely lists very generic concepts based on known
prior art (but I am not a lawyer)