Re: [secdir] secdir re-review of draft-ietf-dime-pmip6-03

"Ahmad Muhanna" <amuhanna@nortel.com> Wed, 09 September 2009 14:37 UTC

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Hi Tom,
Sorry for the delay. It seems that Jouni's wrong email was copied. I
copied the correct one and he can add if necessary. Please see response
inline.

Regards,
Ahmad
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Yu [mailto:tlyu@MIT.EDU] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:47 PM
> To: secdir@ietf.org
> Cc: iesg@ietf.org; dime-chairs@tools.ietf.org; 
> jouni@gmail.com; julien.bournelle@orange-ftgroup.com; 
> kchowdhury@starentnetworks.com; Muhanna, Ahmad (RICH1:2H10); 
> meyer@umic.rwth-aachen.de
> Subject: secdir re-review of draft-ietf-dime-pmip6-03
> 
> This is a re-review of this document.  The document 
> incorporates some of my suggestions from the previous round.
> 
> Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
> > The Security Considerations section states:
> >
> >    The security considerations of the Diameter Base 
> protocol [RFC3588],
> >    Diameter EAP application [RFC4072], Diameter NASREQ application
> >    [RFC4005] and Diameter Mobile IPv6 integrated scenario 
> bootstrapping
> >    [RFC5447] are applicable to this document.
> >
> > Should a reference to RFC 4832 (Security Threats to NETLMM) be 
> > included here?  There appear to be no obvious additional security 
> > considerations beyond those mentioned in the above documents. (if 
> > including the suggested additional citation)
> 
> There has been no change in this area.  Do the authors feel 
> that the additional reference to "Security Threats to NETLMM" 
> is not necessary?

[Ahmad]
This draft does not add any new functionality to the MAG-LMA interface,
i.e., Proxy MIPv6 protocol. It only defines the interfaces MAG-HAAA and
LMA-HAAA. Thus, I am not sure referencing RFC4832 is relevant here.

> 
> >    In general, the Diameter messages may be transported 
> between the HA
> >    and the Diameter server via one or more AAA brokers or Diameter
> >    agents.  In this case the HA to the Diameter server AAA 
> communication
> >    rely on the security properties of the intermediate AAA 
> brokers and
> >    Diameter agents (such as proxies).
> >
> > "HA" as used above is not defined in the document, and is 
> used nowhere 
> > else in the document.  Is it a Home Agent?  (which is not really 
> > otherwise mentioned in this document)
> 
> This is also unchanged.  It would be useful to clarify if the 
> HA is a Home Agent, Home AAA Server, etc.
[Ahmad]
Sure, it is. Will clarify it.

> 
> > Editorial:
> >
> > "DER" and "DEA" are not defined.  I am fairly sure that 
> "DER" does not 
> > mean "Distinguished Encoding Rules" in this document.
> 
> This has not been fixed.  After further investigation, it 
> seems that these mean "Diameter EAP Request" and "Diameter 
> EAP Answer" as defined in RFC 4072.  Although the acronyms 
> are defined in a normative reference, and may be obvious to 
> readers already knowledgeable about the subject, please 
> consider expanding them in this document at least once.
[Ahmad]
No problem here too.

> 
> > The caption for Figure 4 crosses a page break, making it appear 
> > truncated.
> 
> This appears to have been fixed.
> 
> > draft-ietf-netlmm-pmip6-ipv4-support is now on revision #14, but is 
> > cited as "-11".
> 
> This appears to have been fixed.
>