Hi Tom, Thanks for the review.
My comments inline. > Minor issue: Section 2 identifies vulnerability to DoS attacks as a gap, but > there is no follow-up in the rest of the document. Thats because we really dont know how to address this issue. And this is one of the reasons why BFD authentication is still not deployed in the field. > Editorial: I have trouble parsing the first sentence of the fourth paragraph > of Section 3. It currently reads: > > Note that when using authentication mechanisms, BFD requests the > sequence of a received BFD packets drops with a limited range (3* > Detection time multiplier). > > Do you mean to say that BFD requests retransmission of BFD packets that were > received but dropped, and whose sequence numbers lie in a limited range (3* > Detection time multiplier)? I think we're trying to say the following: Note that BFD drops all packets that fall outside the limited range (3*Detection time multiplier). We accept all other editorial comments -- will accept for a few more reviews and collate all of them and spin out a new version. Cheers, Manav > > > Editorial: same paragraph, next sentence, drop the "of": > > OLD > > (3 times of the detect interval of the session) > > NEW > > (3 times the detect interval of the session) > > > > Editorial: next paragraph, third sentence: > > OLD > > If a node will randomly select a new discriminator > for a new session and use authentication mechanism to secure the > control packets, inter-session replay attacks can be mitigated to > some extent. > > NEW > > If a node randomly selects a new discriminator > for a new session and uses an authentication mechanism to secure the > control packets, inter-session replay attacks can be mitigated to > some extent. > > > Editorial: same paragraph, fourth line from bottom: s/reasons/reason/ > > > Editorial: Section 4, third paragraph: s/elaborately/carefully/ > > > Editorial: Section 6, second paragraph: s/relative effective/relatively > effective/ _______________________________________________ Gen-art mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
