Re: [secdir] draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure

["Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Lars,
    I am still waitng for Sandy, but I am thinking I should go ahead and
probably submit what we have now (which I can do in a few days, since it
has been a while I looked at what I have and need to double check
whether everything is incorporated)
-Anantha 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Eggert [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 4:27 AM
> To: Sandra Murphy; Mitesh Dalal (mdalal); Anantha Ramaiah 
> (ananth); IESG IESG; [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure
> 
> Hi,
> 
> what's going on with this draft? Is this still waiting for 
> Sandy, or is the ball with the authors?
> 
> Lars
> 
> On 2009-7-9, at 10:06, Eggert Lars (Nokia-NRC/Espoo) wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Sandy,
> >
> > On 2009-6-8, at 16:59, Sandra Murphy wrote:
> >> I've been on the road, so this is just a quick note to say that I 
> >> still have questions, with a promise of more full answer 
> when I get 
> >> back to the office tomorrow.
> >
> > the authors are still waiting to hear your additional questions.  
> > Please let me know when we can expect them, so I know when I can 
> > expect a revision from the authors.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lars
> >
> >> All the following done really from memory from a re-review 
> yesterday.  
> >> Just  so you know I haven't forgotten you.
> >>
> >> About quoting text:
> >>
> >> The example you point to of what each mitigation says is a 
> good case.
> >> (what is "rg"?)
> >>
> >> You posit a case 1 and case 2.  This is a summary of what 
> 793 says, 
> >> not a quote.  793 spreads the discussion over 2 pages.  
> your case 1 
> >> is represented in a parenthetical remark in an "otherwise" 
> clause - 
> >> hard to find.  And you have a typo in the inequality.  And 
> the case 2 
> >> in
> >> 793 is
> >> broken out over three different groupings of states.  Do 
> you mean the 
> >> new ACK to be generated in all three state groups?
> >>
> >> About the stingency.
> >>
> >> If UNA is 1000, Max.snd.wnd is 50, and the ack is 975, 
> then in 793, 
> >> the ack is < UNA and so "it is ignored", in your draft the 
> ack is > 
> >> UNA-max.snd.wnd so it is acceptable.
> >>
> >> So your draft accepts more ACKs that 793.
> >>
> >> Have I lost my ability to tell > from <?  Do you regard accepting 
> >> more ACKS as "more stringent"?
> >>
> >> About the guidance to implementors.
> >>
> >> It still looks to me like this guidance is only useful to 
> >> implementors who are implementing both the OS TCP stack *AND* the 
> >> application.  I.E., freebsd won't know whether this to follow the 
> >> guidance or not but cisco/juniper/etc will.
> >>
> >> What is the "AS"?
> >>
> >> About grammar checks:
> >>
> >> And you did not miss email, I lost my marked up copy, so 
> I've  gone 
> >> through for the grammar check again (don't think I found all that 
> >> many
> >> nits) and will send to you.
> >>
> >> --Sandy
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
>