Hi Luigi,

All of your proposed changes look good to me.

-MSK

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 2:47 AM Luigi Iannone <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Murray,
>
> Thanks a lot for your review.
> Please see inline.
>
> On 30 Jun 2022, at 09:29, Murray Kucherawy via Datatracker <
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> DISCUSS:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Sections 8.1 through 8.5 all create registries with "Specification
> Required"
> rules.  RFC 8126 says this about "Specification Required":
>
>   As with Expert Review (Section 4.5), clear guidance to the designated
>   expert should be provided when defining the registry, and thorough
>   understanding of Section 5 is important.
>
> Only Section 8.5 includes any such guidance.  Is none needed for the other
> four?
>
>
> Actually all of them need guidance which is basically the same and could
> be provide at the beginning of the IANA section.
>
>  Also, I'm having trouble understanding the advice that Section 8.5 does
> give.
>
>
> The beginning of the IANA section  can be:
>
> IANA is requested to create the sub-registries listed in the
> following sections in the "Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
> Parameters" registry.
>
> New values beyond this document have to be assigned according to  the
> "Specification Required" policy defined in [RFC8126].
> Expert review should assess the security properties of newly added
> functions, so that encryption robustness is remains strong.
> For instance, at the time of this writing the use of SHA-256-based
> functions is
> considered to provide sufficient protection. Consultation with security
> experts may be needed.
>
> Does the above text look good to you or do you have any suggestion of a 
> better formulation?
>
>
>
>
>
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> COMMENT:
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>
> I concur with John; this was generally well-done and easy to understand.
> Nice
> work.  A couple of suggestions:
>
> In Section 6.1 has:
>
>   E: ETR-Cant-Sign bit.  This bit is set to 1 to signal ...
>
> I think you mean "If this bit is set to 1, it signals ..." or something
> similar.  Taken literally, the current text means you always set it to 1,
> but I
> don't think that's what you meant to say.
>
>
> You are right: it should read:
>
> E: ETR-Cant-Sign bit. If this bit is set to 1, it signals to the ITR
>             that at least one of the ETRs authoritative for the EID
> prefixes
>             of this Map-Reply has not enabled LISP-SEC.
>
>
> I think the fifth paragraph of Section 6.4 is missing a period or
> something.  I
> found it hard to parse toward the end.
>
>
>
>
>
>    The ITR-OTK is wrapped with the algorithm specified by the OTK
>    Wrapping ID field.  See Section 6.5 
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lisp-sec-27#section-6.5> 
> for further details on OTK
>    encryption.  If the NULL-KEY-WRAP-128 algorithm (see Section 8.4 
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lisp-sec-27#section-8.4>) is
>    selected, and no other encryption mechanism (e.g.  DTLS) is enabled
>    in the path between the ITR and the Map-Resolver, the Map-Request
>    MUST be dropped, and an appropriate log action SHOULD be taken.
>    Implementations may include mechanisms (which are beyond the scope of
>    this document) to avoid log resource exhaustion attacks.
>
>
>
> Two commas and a period were missing…. Does it read better?
>
> Ciao
>
> L.
>
>
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