Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-18

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Sun, 17 September 2017 07:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-18
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> 1) Encrypt the data in transit, using IPSEC or similar;

like this is gonna happen.  this is the secdir pacifier.

> That's not a bad posture, but I wish that you were explicit about the
> threats. I am somewhat concerned that the "administrative domain"
> approach leads to complacency, as in "my domain is secure, I am only
> concerned with external leakage".

there is common talk about pushing some services in a chain to the
cloud, aka other people's computers.

randy