The IESG has approved the following document: - 'LISP Threats Analysis' (draft-ietf-lisp-threats-15.txt) as Informational RFC
This document is the product of the Locator/ID Separation Protocol Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Alia Atlas and Deborah Brungard. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lisp-threats/ Technical Summary This document review the kinds of security threats that arise when LISP is being used. It discusses the kinds of attacks and mechanisms, so as to note clearly where LISP modifies the normal assumptions. It then discusses particular attacks that can be mounted. The document concludes with some general recommendations on deployment and configuration techniques that can ameliorate some of the attacks. Working Group Summary The document has going through multiple reviews and restructurings. The current document is very clear and readable. The documented is intended to provide information to the community, and does not modify the protocol nor mandate specific techniques. As such, the working group is requesting that this be published as an Informational RFC. In addition, there were multiple reviews by different people to ensure that the full range of threats were covered and accurately described. Finding the right wording was challenging, but was accomplished. Document Quality The shepherd has performed a final review, and agrees that this document is useful and ready for publication as an Informational RFC. Personnel Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Joel Halpern Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard _______________________________________________ lisp mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp
