Re: [secdir] Secdir review: draft-west-webappsec-csp-reg-03.txt

Mike West <mkwst@google.com> Tue, 20 October 2015 09:37 UTC

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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:37:06 +0200
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Subject: Re: [secdir] Secdir review: draft-west-webappsec-csp-reg-03.txt
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> 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.

Thank you, Robert!

> The BNF for directive-name, as copied into this draft, allows a directive
> name of -, or --, ---, etc.
> Are you expecting an expert to disallow these, or are they ok?
> Is the answer the same for the name 42?

I think we would rely on the expert to determine whether these are
appropriate directive names. I'd suggest that they aren't, but I'm not
sure it's worth constructing a more rigid grammar which would ban
them.

-mike