Re: [stir] Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-stir-rph-03: (with COMMENT)

["Das, Subir" <[e-mail]>]

Hello Benjamin,
Thanks for your review and comments. Please see the answers inline. 

Regards,
-Subir 

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Subject: Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-stir-rph-03: (with COMMENT)

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draft-ietf-stir-rph-03: No Objection

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I support Ben's discuss.

Thank you for working with the secdir reviewer to address those comments; I think it will really improve the document.

SD>Thanks. 

In a similar vein, I wonder if this document would be easier to read if it used less formal description terms for protocol elements that are currently referred to by using the actual protocol element (with quotes around the name).  For example, "SIP resource priority header" instead of "'Resource-Priority' header field", or "priority indicator" instead of "'namespace"."priority value"'.

SD> We can update like this but earlier recommendation was to be consistent with RFC 4412 and we followed that. 

I'm a little confused why the new registry created in Section 6.2 is tied to the "resource priority header" (rph) name, when the discussion in Section 5 has some potential envisioned use cases that are broader than resource priority.

SD> . You are correct that Section 5 leaves the possibility of adding new value but when defined, this will be a new  type and will be registered under the same ppt value 'rph'.   For use cases other than resource priority, a new 'ppt' needs to be defined.   We will make it clear in Section 5, 1st paragraph last sentence as follows:

" The specification of the "rph" claim could entail the optional presence of one or more such additional information fields applicable to 'Resource Priority'."


As Ben notes, there are some stale references.  Please double-check the referred section numbers as well; in particular "Section 10.1 of [4474bis]" does not exist in the only February-2017 verions of that draft.

Section 7.2 uses "authority" in a couple of different senses; it might be easier on the reader to refer to the authority (protocol
participant) as being "authoritative for the content of [stuff] that it signs".

SD>  How about the following? 

The use of extension to PASSporT tokens with "ppt" value "rph" based on the validation of the digital signature and the associated certificate requires consideration of the authentication, authorization, and  reputation of the signer to attest to the identity being asserted. The following considerations should be recognized when using PASSporT extension with "ppt" value of "rph":

o A signer is only allowed to sign the content of a 'SIP Resource-Priority’ header field for which it has the right authority.  The signer  that signs the token MUST have a secure method for authentication of the end user or the device.