[secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-sipcore-keep-10.txt

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>]

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 discusses how to negotiate the usage of keep-alive
messages using a new SIP "keep" Via header field. The document appears
to be well worked out and the security considerations seem to be
adequate. I spotted to mostly editorial nits in the security
considerations:

a) [...]  This specification does not specify a connection
   reuse mechanism, and it does it address security issues related to
   connection reuse.  [...]

   s/it does it/it does not/

b) [...]  They do not instruct the enity to
   place a value in a "keep" parameter of any request it forwards.  [...]

   s/enity/entity/

/js

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