[secdir] Secdir review of draft-ietf-sip-hitchhikers-guide-05.txt

I am reviewing 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. Feel free to forward to any appropriate forum.

This document lists and categorizes all of the RFCs and Internet Drafts concerning SIP with a goal of helping someone who is trying to find the right document do so. It contains a short paragraph summarizing each document.

As such this document raises no new security considerations (and says so, pointing readers at the security considerations sections of the underlying documents). In the context of this document, that seems entirely appropriate.

Note to authors and WG chairs: There is a problem with this document in that it will quickly become out of date as RFCs are updated, I-Ds are promoted to RFC or abandoned, and new I-Ds are created. I could imagine the RFC editor blocking its promotion until all of the referenced I-Ds are either promoted or abandoned, by which time it would certainly be obsolete. It might be that this document will need to "permanently" be an I-D unless at some point in the future activity in the SIP space drops off dramatically. I don't know whether there is precedent for such a document. There probably should be such a document for each area or sub-area.

Typo: p5 "identifes"-> "identifies"

        --Charlie

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