Re: [secdir] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-lsr-ip-flexalgo-11

Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> Wed, 17 May 2023 20:01 UTC

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From: Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-lsr-ip-flexalgo-11
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> On 16 May 2023, at 10:25, Peter Psenak <ppsenak@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> Yoav,
> 
> thanks for comments, please see inline:
> 
> 
> On 15/05/2023 21:36, Yoav Nir via Datatracker wrote:
>> Reviewer: Yoav Nir
>> Review result: Has Nits
>> 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.
>> I am no expert on routing in general or IGP flex algorithms in particular. That
>> said, I found the Abstract and Introduction jarring. The first paragraph of the
>> Abstract would be better as part of the introduction than the abstract.
> 
> I moved the first paragraph from Abstract to Introduction.

Sounds good.

> 
>> The Security Considerations section seems mostly copy-pasted from RFC 9350 with
>> mild editing.  The substance may be correct - that the only new attack possible
>> is suppressing reachability for a prefix, but I think only the second paragraph
>> is necessary for that.
> 
> I would prefer to keep the first paragraph.

OK.

Yoav