[secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-msec-ipsec-group-counter-modes

Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu> Wed, 14 July 2010 11:55 UTC

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Subject: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-msec-ipsec-group-counter-modes
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This is a secdir review of the above draft.

The text looks fine. However, I'm concerned that this specification does
not provide sufficient detail for interoperable implementation.  It
makes it clear that a GKMS needs to allocate SIDs but does not cite any
mechanism for a GKMS to do so.

I think you need to either add a normative reference to a hopefully
already existing description of how to distribute this parameter, or
recast this document as an informational document describing a general
method but not implementing a protocol.