Re: [Roll] Questions on the RPL applicability statement

["Popa, Daniel" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Michael, 

Thanks for clarifying our questions. 

The remaining question is related to Section 8 " Other Related Protocols" as per  " draft-ietf-roll-applicability-template-04": What is the intent of this section? 

http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/draft-ietf-roll-applicability-template-04.pdf

Regards,
Daniel



-----Message d'origine-----
De : [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] De la part de Michael Richardson
Envoyé : samedi 25 janvier 2014 17:38
À : [e-mail]
Cc : Popa, Daniel; Gillmore, Matthew
Objet : Re: Questions on the RPL applicability statement


Popa, Daniel <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > You're right. In our document the section numbers do not match the
    > section numbers from the template you proposed.

    > The questions we have are:

    > - What is the intent of the Section called "Other protocols"?

I'm not sure.  I don't have such a section.
There are two sections that say, "Other Parameters".

I've posted a -04 with some details of what I think belongs in the first of those sections. The diffs are below.

    > - In your template there are 2 (distinct) sections called "Layer 2
    > applicability" and "Description of the Layer 2 features",
    > respectively. We wondering if these two sections are not somehow
    > redundant; what is the intent of having these 2 (distinct) sections?

section 2.3, layer-2, details what layer-2 technologies are going to be used.
This is at the high-level.  So in your document, you would write:

     This applicability statement applies to deployments using
     IEEE 802.15.4g, 802.15.4e, and for PowerLine Communication (PLC) IEEE P1901.2.

whereas in the home-building document it says:

   This document applies to [IEEE802.15.4] and [G.9959] which are
   adapted to IPv6 by the adaption layers [RFC4944] and
   [I-D.brandt-6man-lowpanz].

   (and it goes on to explain how 6lowpan is applied to form a layer-3, which
   actually, I think should go in the other section)

In the section of layer-2 features, I would expect to learn the significant details about each of the layer-2s being used.... if you are using the layer-2 security features, how they are configured (no security, per-network keying, per-node pair keying,  bootstrapping of new nodes...) and what assumptions one might reasonably be able to make about layer-3
security from layer-2 features.   This section will go a long long long way
towards making the security review easier:  if you claim that layer-2 guarantees no strangers on the network, then a whole bunch of threats go away.

{I'm a bit upset at the security reviews that we have got... They have occured, actually, way too soon, and in the wrong direction.  Still, all questions are important to answer}

--
Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>, Sandelman Software Works