Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-oam-mib-06
Alia Atlas <akatlas@gmail.com> Thu, 13 August 2015 19:42 UTC
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Subject: Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-oam-mib-06
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thanks - the IESG generally begins reading drafts for the telechat about now - a week in advance. Regards, Alia On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Deepak Kumar (dekumar) <dekumar@cisco.com> wrote: > Hi Alia, > > I will be able to take care of all comments over weekend. > > Thanks, > Deepak > > From: Alia Atlas <akatlas@gmail.com> > Date: Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 10:44 AM > To: "d3e3e3@gmail.com" <d3e3e3@gmail.com> > Cc: dekumar <dekumar@cisco.com>, " > draft-ietf-trill-oam-mib.all@tools.ietf.org" < > draft-ietf-trill-oam-mib.all@tools.ietf.org>, Tissa Senevirathne < > tsenevir@gmail.com>, The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, Yoav Nir < > ynir.ietf@gmail.com>, secdir <secdir@ietf.org> > Subject: Re: SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-oam-mib-06 > > Hi Deepak, > > Are you planning on publishing an updated draft today? > I'd like to move the draft ahead to IESG Evaluation. > > Thanks, > Alia > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> wrote: > >> HI Deepak, >> >> On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Deepak Kumar (dekumar) >> <dekumar@cisco.com> wrote: >> > Hi Yoav, >> > >> > Thanks for review and comments. Please advise if we need to fix the nits >> > and comments and upload new version as I am not sure about procedure of >> > fixing comments during last call. >> > >> > Tissa has moved out of Cisco and working in another Company, I don¹t >> have >> > privy of his new contact so I will contact him to get new contact and >> > update the document also. >> >> I've added Tissa to the cc list above. I believe that for now he wants >> to be listed with "Consultant" as his affiliation and with email >> address <tsenevir@gmail.com>. >> >> The IETF LC ends the 13th, in a few days. I suggest that you update >> the contact info for Tissa, spell out OAM, and update the >> MODULE-IDENTITY, since those don't seem like they would be >> controversial. For any changes to the Security Considerations text, I >> suggest you post proposed text in this thread before editing it in. >> >> Thanks, >> Donald (Shepherd) >> ============================= >> Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) >> 155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA >> d3e3e3@gmail.com >> >> > Thanks, >> > Deepak >> > >> > On 8/8/15, 2:18 PM, "Yoav Nir" <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >>Hi. >> >> >> >>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. >> >> >> >>TL;DR: The document is ready with nits. >> >> >> >>The document contains a MIB for operations, administration, and >> >>maintenance (OAM) of TRILL. As is common for such documents, 34 of its >> 45 >> >>pages is section 7 ("Definition of the TRILL OAM MIB module²). Being an >> >>expert on neither TRILL nor MIBs I have mostly skipped that section. >> >> >> >>Usually with MIB documents, the security considerations for the protocol >> >>(several TRILL RFCs in this case) are in the protocol documents, while >> >>the security considerations for SNMP are in the SNMP document (RFC >> 3410). >> >>The MIB document only points data that is sensitive (in terms of privacy >> >>or information leakage), and data which is dangerous in the sense that >> >>falsified or modified data could lead to damage. >> >> >> >>In this document the Security Considerations section does a good job of >> >>explaining that modified data can lead to changes in routing and >> >>potentially to denial of service. The second paragraph is a little >> >>hand-wavy for my taste: >> >> >> >> There are number of management objects defined in this MIB module >> >> with a MAX-ACCESS clause of read-create. Such objects may be >> >> considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. >> >> >> >>What network environment? Why in some but not in others? The third >> >>paragraph is similar: >> >> >> >> Some of the readable objects in this MIB module (objects with a MAC- >> >> ACCESS other than not-accessible) may be considered sensitive or >> >> vulnerable in some network environments. >> >> >> >>The section concludes with text that looks very familiar from other MIB >> >>documents, basically saying that you should use SNMPv3 because it has >> >>protections whereas earlier versions don¹t. It is also important to have >> >>proper access control rules. One nit is that the section says that the >> >>cryptographic mechanisms in SNMPv3 provide ³privacy². As of late we tend >> >>to use that word for the protection of information about humans, not so >> >>much about link status. >> >> >> >>A few general nits: >> >> - In most documents that I see, the content of sections 1-4 is in a >> >>single section. >> >> - OAM is not expanded before first use. >> >> - The MODULE-IDENTITY has ³TBD² for ORGANIZATION and authors¹ names in >> >>CONTACT-INFO. looking at a few recent MIB documents, the working group >> is >> >>usually given as ORGANIZATION and its mailing list is given as contact >> >>info. >> >> >> >>Yoav >> >> >> > >> >> >
- [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-oam-m… Yoav Nir
- Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-o… Yoav Nir
- Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-o… Deepak Kumar (dekumar)
- Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-o… Donald Eastlake
- Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-o… Alia Atlas
- Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-o… Deepak Kumar (dekumar)
- Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-o… Alia Atlas
- Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-o… Kathleen Moriarty
- Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-o… Alia Atlas
- Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-o… Deepak Kumar (dekumar)
- Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-o… Kathleen Moriarty
- Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-o… Deepak Kumar (dekumar)
- Re: [secdir] SecDir Review for draft-ietf-trill-o… Yoav Nir