> On 7 Oct 2016, at 10:48, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 02:58:09AM -0400,
> Tim Wicinski <[email protected]> wrote 
> a message of 28 lines which said:
> 
>> This starts a Working Group Last Call for:
>>   draft-ietf-dprive-dtls-and-tls-profile
> 
> Executive summary: OK for me,
> draft-ietf-dprive-dtls-and-tls-profiles-03 can (and should) be
> published. I find that touchy issues, such as the relationship with
> the authentication mechanisms described in RFC 7858, or such as the
> table 1 "DNS Privacy Protection by Usage Profile and type of attacker"
> are nicely done.

Good to know - thanks. 

> 
> The table 1 could use some details about the possibility of detection
> for passive attacks (for active attacks, it is addressed in section
> 5). These details were promised in
> <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dns-privacy/8VMIuFKWZUAzP7UWivLn9fA_Ew4>
> :-)

Yes, thanks for catching (again)! I will add an example similar to the one in 
the mail thread into section 5 so that the discussion of detection of active 
and passive attacks are together. 

> 
> Technical question:
> 
> The document seems to use "X.509" and "PKIX" as synonyms. Is it really
> the case?

Paul’s suggestions of using PKIX throughout seems sensible.

> 
> Small legal detail:
> 
>> this application [extended to be used for recursive clients and
>> authoritative servers] is out of scope for the DNS PRIVate Exchange
>> (DPRIVE) Working Group per its current charter.
> 
> A bit exaggerated: the current charter says "it [the DPRIVE WG] may
> also later consider mechanisms that provide confidentiality between
> Iterative Resolvers and Authoritative Servers”

A reasonable point. I copied that text directly from RFC7858 (DNS-over-TLS) as 
that is how the scope is justified in that document….. 

> 
> Editorial detail:
> 
>> but may be the subject of a future I-D.
> 
> Should probably be removed before it becomes a RFC.

How about I change it to “may be the subject of future work”?  Unless such an 
ID is likely to appear in the very near future?  :-)

Sara. 
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