[secdir] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-6man-pio-pflag-09

Benjamin Schwartz via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> Mon, 09 September 2024 18:42 UTC

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Reviewer: Benjamin Schwartz
Review result: Ready

Security Issues:

The security section is, if anything, too detailed, as it describes attacks
that are not meaningful to the security of the system.  I would shorten this
section.

The privacy considerations are important and are described appropriately.  It
might be worth adding a note that privacy-conscious clients should consider not
implementing this specification.

Other topics:

I was not able to see why prefix requests "MUST" be short enough for SLAAC. 
Why would a host perform SLAAC within its own exclusively allocated prefix?  If
the host is acting as a router for a network containing SLAAC clients, it can
request a larger prefix, but why is this mandatory for all hosts?