I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, please see the FAQ at < http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq>.
Please wait for direction from your document shepherd or AD before posting a new version of the draft. Document: draft-ietf-manet-ibs-03 Reviewer: Martin Thomson Review Date: 2014-10-23 IETF LC End Date: 2014-10-27 IESG Telechat date: (if known) Summary: Ready with questions. The language is quite clear and precise. I did find that comprehension required a non-trivial amount of digging into other documents, but nothing was particularly hard to find. This has a downref to 6507 (I see this in the shepherd writeup). Questions: The security considerations notes that the trusted authority has access to private keys. That would seem to defeat much of the benefit of using asymmetric crypto here. Why is this considered acceptable in this context? (I'd have thought it to be unacceptable in any context when superior alternatives exist.) The document mentions revocation, but does not seem to specify anything. If that is intentional, shouldn't the draft be more forward about that? (I only skimmed 6507 and the other docs, so I apologize if I missed something. Nits: S4.1: duplicate "in in" S5: It's probably not necessary to amend the reserved codepoints in the registry: that rots quickly. _______________________________________________ Gen-art mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
