[secdir] Sector review of draft-ietf-manet-rfc6779bis-05

[Vincent Roca <[e-mail]>]

Hello,

I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate’s ongoing
effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG. These
comments were written primarily for the benefit of the security area
directors.  Document editors and WG chairs should treat these comments just
like any other last call comments.


Summary: ready

The security considerations section is a carbon copy of that of RFC 6779 published in 2012. The only modification is the addition of a reference to "Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET)".

As explained by the authors, information contained in this MIB is highly sensitive, both from the security and privacy point of views. This is all the most true when considering some of the target use-cases (emergency services or military tactical applications).

If I find this section globally well written. I'm just a bit surprised by the following sentence:
	"It is thus important to control even GET and/or NOTIFY access to these objects
	 and possibly to even encrypt the values of these objects when sending them
	over the network via SNMP."
I would rather say that it is essential to encrypt and verify the integrity of all the SNMP traffic. Here I find the style not sufficiently directive... But this is a detail.


Cheers,

  Vincent