[secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-12vpn-pbb-evpn-09

[Catherine Meadows <[e-mail]>]

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.

This draft describes a method for integrating Ethernet Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) with Ethernet VPN (EVPN) to
improve the delivery of MAC addresses, in particular with respect to scalability.  

I don’t see any security concerns with this draft, but I do have some comments on the Security Considerations section.
It is very short, and all it says that the security considerations in the EVPN draft apply directly to this draft. I assume that
it is also the case that this draft introduces no new security considerations.  If so, you should say so, and you should
also say why.  Also, I was wondering if the mechanisms introduced in this draft, by introducing a greater degree of organization
in the delivery of MAC addresses, makes it easier to detect duplicated MACs, which were mentioned as a security risk in the
Security Considerations of the EVPN draft.  If this is the case, it would be a good thing to mention here.

I’d consider the draft somewhere between ready with nits and ready with issues.  I don’t see any real security issues
here, just a Security Considerations section that needs to be expanded a little, but this seems to be a little more than what the
secdir guidelines would call a nit.

Cathy Meadows

 
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