Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-trill-directory-framework-06

[Donald Eastlake <[e-mail]>]

Hi Charlie,

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Charlie Kaufman <[e-mail]> 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 document describes a framework for adding a central control mechanism
> to trill to replace or supplement its autoconfiguring mechanism of
> dynamically learning the locations of all addresses on the LAN. The specific
> protocols for supplying and consuming this configuration information will
> presumably appear in future specs. This sort of configuration control is
> useful in a datacenter where all connections are carefully configured rather
> than being plug and play. It is particularly applicable in a "cloud"
> environment where virtual machines are moved between physical machines by
> some sort of Virtual Machine Management System that will also assign
> addresses and place them.
>
> This is a re-review. This latest draft incorporates all of my comments on
> -05, in particular an expanded description of the security advantages of
> this approach over the standard autoconfiguration in trill. I have no issues
> with it. I did find 2 typos:
>
> Page 4 last paragraph: “Both items 3 and 4 above…” There are only three
> items above. I suspect it should say “Both items 2 and 3 above…”

Yes, should be as you suggest.

> Page 15 section 7 paragraph 3: “Perhaps S want steal” -> “Perhaps S wants to
> steal”

Yup, thanks for spotting the typo.

I'd be happy to make those changes and re-post but these are
sufficiently minor that I am not sure I should do that right now...

Thanks,
Donald
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