Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-pwe3-iccp-13

"Scott G. Kelly" <scott@hyperthought.com> Wed, 19 February 2014 00:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-pwe3-iccp-13
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Hi Stewart,

On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 9:08am, "Stewart Bryant" <stbryant@cisco.com> said:

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> Scott
> 
> Thank you for the review.
> 
> MPLS signalling is only used in well managed and highly monitored networks
> so an attempt by an attacker to join would be noticed. However to
> attempt the
> join the attacker would first need to breach the physical and packet
> filtering
> security measures.
> 
> This would not be deployed on or over the public Internet.
> 
> Stewart

If this is obvious to folks working in this domain, you may not need to say this in the document, but if you want it to be obvious to everyone, a statement to this effect in the security considerations might be helpful.

Thanks,

Scott