[sipcore] AD Review: draft-ietf-sipcore-locparam

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Mon, 13 January 2020 23:31 UTC

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Subject: [sipcore] AD Review: draft-ietf-sipcore-locparam
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This is my AD review of draft-ietf-sipcore-locparam. Thanks for the work
that went into creating this document. I find no serious issues, and will
be requesting IETF last call momentarily.

I have included a small number of editorial suggestions below. Please
treat them the same as you would any other IETF last call comments.


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§1:

>    These solutions don't preclude the use of UE provided location but

Nit: "UE-provided"

>    "loc-src"."How the entity adding the locationValue to the header

Nit: extra quotation mark before "How"

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§3:

>     All of them allow the UE to provide location information, however,

Nit: "...information; however..."

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§3:

>    The "loc-src" parameter adds the location source generating the
>    locationValue to increase the trustworthiness of the location
>    information.

Given that this mechanism doesn't add any authentication mechanisms,
I expect that this assertion will raise some eyebrows with the
security folks. From a security perspective, the information appears
to be exactly as trustworthy as it is without this mechanism.

I recommend that this sentence be struck, or changed to something more
along the lines of: "...to allow recipients to make informed decisions
about which of multiple values to use."

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§7:

>    As already stated in [RFC6442] securing the location hop- by-hop,

Nit: "stated in [RFC6442], securing..."

Nit: "...hop-by-hop..."

>     between the domains.  If such trust domain is not given it is

Nit: "...is not given, it is..."

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