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Re: [secdir] Review of draft-ietf-trill-irb-13

Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> Wed, 29 June 2016 02:56 UTC

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From: Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:56:11 -0400
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Subject: Re: [secdir] Review of draft-ietf-trill-irb-13
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Hi Shawan,

Thanks for our comments.

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Shawn M Emery <shawn.emery@oracle.com> wrote:
> 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 specifies layer 3 (inter-subnet) gateway messaging of the
> TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) protocol.
>
> The security considerations section does exist and refers to Intermediate
> System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) authentication (RFC 5310) for securing
> information advertised by Routing Bridges.  For generic TRILL security the
> draft refers to RFC 6325.  For sensitive data, it prescribes end-to-end
> security, but does not reference or provide details on how this is done in
> a layer 3 deployment.

Would you think it helpful if it gave IPsec and/or TLS as examples of
protocols that might be used for end-to-end security?

> General comments:
>
> None.
>
> Editorial comments:
>
> Does TRILL and FGL need to be expanded in the Abstract and Introduction
> section, respectively?
> I think it would be helpful to describe the "Inner.VLAN" syntax used
> throughout the document.

The payload of a TRILL Data packet looks like an Ethernet frame with a
VLAN tag which is the inner.VLAN. This could be added to the
definitions in Section 2.

> s/that belong to same/that belong to the same/

OK.

> s/VLANs in entire/VLANs in the entire/

OK.

> s/optimal pair-wise forwarding path/optimal pair-wise forwarding paths/

I don't see that in version -13.

> s/check the Inner.MacDA/checks the Inner.MacDA/

OK.

> s/tenant gateway MAC change/tenant gateway MAC changes,/

OK.

> s/Zhenbin Li, Zhibo Hu./Zhenbin Li, and Zhibo Hu./

OK.

Thanks,
Donald
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