[Sidrops] Adam Roach's No Objection on draft-ietf-sidrops-rtr-keying-03: (with COMMENT)
Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Wed, 23 January 2019 04:09 UTC
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Subject: [Sidrops] Adam Roach's No Objection on draft-ietf-sidrops-rtr-keying-03: (with COMMENT)
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Adam Roach has entered the following ballot position for draft-ietf-sidrops-rtr-keying-03: No Objection When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this introductory paragraph, however.) Please refer to https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.html for more information about IESG DISCUSS and COMMENT positions. The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sidrops-rtr-keying/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMENT: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to the authors for a well-written and clear document. I have one substantive comment, and a minor editorial nit. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- §3: > - Using FTP or HTTP per [RFC2585], and It's not clear from a casual examination whether use of unencrypted and non-integrity-protected channels for these operations are safe. I would expect to see a discussion of this in this section and/or section 10. The closest I could find is the SHOULD-strength (!) recommendation for transport-level security for private key transport. Without a more thorough analysis, I suspect we should more strongly deprecate the use of unencrypted/non-integrity-protected transports. This document is, after all, supposed to be calling out best practice; and, in 2019, that really does entail transport security except under the most exceptional circumstances. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- §2: > Though other configuration mechanisms might be used, e.g. NetConf > (see [RFC6470]), the protected the protected channel between the Nit: duplicate "...the protected..."