Re: [secdir] SecDir Review of draft-ietf-avtext-rams-scenarios-04

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Mon, 30 April 2012 13:05 UTC

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> The document says that it has no security considerations. While I would
> agree that it doesn't add new security considerations to the one defined in
> RFC 6285, I am a bit puzzled why it doesn't say exactly that. RFC 6285 has
> very extensive Security Considerations.

The author has already agreed to incorporate my IESG Evaluation comment, thus:

> Security Considerations:
> Might it not be better to say something like this?:
> "Because this document describes deployment scenarios for RAMS, all security
> considerations are specified in the RAMS specifiction [RFC6285]."

Barry