On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:12 PM, Dave Dugal <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree with the updated charter as presented below.
> 
> Please consider removing the following minor cut/paste error:
> 
>> 
>> Informational or Best Current Practices Documents
>> 
>> For each topic addressed, the working group will produce a document that
>> captures common practices related to secure network operation.  -will be
>> produced-. This will be primarily based on operational experience. A
>> document might convey:
> 
> EDIT: Remove "  will be produced."

Ah-ha! That was a cunning trick to see if anyone was actually reading the text 
-- guess they were.

(AKA, thank you, not sure where that climbed in…)

W


> 
> - Dave Dugal
> 
> On 10/15/2013 12:52 PM, The IESG <[email protected]> proclaimed ...
>> The Operational Security Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure
>> (opsec) working group in the Operations and Management Area of the IETF
>> is undergoing rechartering. The IESG has not made any determination yet.
>> The following draft charter was submitted, and is provided for
>> informational purposes only. Please send your comments to the IESG
>> mailing list (iesg at ietf.org) by 2013-10-22.
>> 
>> Operational Security Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure (opsec)
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> Current Status: Active WG
>> 
>> Chairs:
>>  Warren Kumari <[email protected]>
>>  Gunter Van de Velde <[email protected]>
>>  KK Chittimaneni <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Assigned Area Director:
>>  Joel Jaeggli <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Mailing list
>>  Address: [email protected]
>>  To Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsec
>>  Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/opsec/
>> 
>> Charter:
>> 
>> Goals:
>> 
>> The OPSEC WG will document operational issues and best current practices 
>> with regard to network security.In particular, the working group will
>> clarify the rationale of supporting current operational practice, 
>> addressing gaps in currently understood best practices, and clarifying 
>> liabilities inherent in security practices where they exist.
>> 
>> Scope:
>> 
>> The scope of the OPSEC WG includes the protection and secure  operation
>> of the forwarding, control and management planes. Documentation of 
>> operational issues, revision of existing operational security practices 
>> documents and proposals for new approaches to operational challenges
>> related to network security are in scope.
>> 
>> Method:
>> 
>> The work will result in the publication of informational or BCP RFCs. 
>> Taxonomy or problem statement  documents may provide a basis for such
>> documents.
>> 
>> Informational or Best Current Practices Documents
>> 
>> For each topic addressed, the working group will produce a document that
>> captures common practices related to secure network operation.  will be
>> produced. This will be primarily based on operational experience. A
>> document might convey:
>> 
>> * a threat or threats to be addressed
>> 
>> * current practices for addressing the threat
>> 
>> * protocols, tools and technologies extant at the time of writing that
>> are used to address the threat
>> 
>> * the possibility that a solution does not exist within existing tools or 
>> technologies
>> 
>> Taxonomy and Problem Statement Documents
>> 
>> These are documents that describe the scope of particular operational
>> security challenges or problem spaces without necessarily coming to
>> conclusions or proposing solutions. Such a document might be the 
>> precusor to an informational or best current practices document.
>> 
>> While the principal input of the working group is operational experience
>> and needs, the output should be directed towards providing guidance to 
>> the operators community,  other working groups that develop protocols or 
>> the protocol development community.  
>> 
>> Non-Goals:
>> 
>> The OPSEC WG is will not write or modify protocols. New protocol work
>> must be addressed through a working group chartered for that work, or 
>> via one of the individual submission processes. The OPSEC WG may take on
>> documents related to the practices of using such work.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Milestones:
>>  Done     - Complete Charter
>>  Done     - First draft of Framework Document as Internet Draft
>>  Done     - First draft of Standards Survey Document as Internet Draft
>>  Done     - First draft of Packet Filtering Capabilities
>>  Done     - First draft of Event Logging Capabilities
>>  Done     - First draft of Network Operator Current Security Practices
>>  Done     - First draft of In-Band management capabilities
>>  Done     - First draft of Out-of-Band management capabilities
>>  Done     - First draft of Configuration and Management Interface
>> Capabilities
>>  Done     - Submit Network Operator Current Security Practices to IESG
>>  Dec 2012 - WG Adoption of 'BGP operations and security' document
>>  Dec 2012 - WG Adoption of 'Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks'
>> document
>>  Dec 2012 - WG Adoption of 'DHCPv6-Shield: Protecting Against Rogue
>> DHCPv6 Servers' document
>>  Dec 2012 - WG Adoption of 'Virtual Private Network (VPN) traffic
>> leakages in dual-stack hosts/networks' document
>>  Jan 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Operational Security Considerations for
>> IPv6 Networks' document
>>  Jan 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Recommendations for filtering ICMP
>> messages' document
>>  Jan 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Recommendations on filtering of IPv4
>> packets containing IPv4 options' document
>>  Jan 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Security Implications of IPv6 on IPv4
>> networks' document
>>  Mar 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Using Only Link-Local Addressing Inside an
>> IPv6 Network' document
>>  Mar 2013 - Submit 'Recommendations for filtering ICMP messages'
>> document to IESG
>>  Mar 2013 - Submit 'Recommendations on filtering of IPv4 packets
>> containing IPv4 options' document to IESG
>>  Mar 2013 - Submit 'Operational Security Considerations for IPv6
>> Networks' document to IESG
>>  Mar 2013 - Submit 'Recommendations for filtering ICMP messages'
>> document to IESG
>>  May 2013 - Submit 'Using Only Link-Local Addressing Inside an IPv6
>> Network' document to IESG
>>  Jul 2013 - WG Last Call for 'BGP operations and security' document
>>  Jul 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks'
>> document
>>  Jul 2013 - WG Last Call for 'DHCPv6-Shield: Protecting Against Rogue
>> DHCPv6 Servers' document
>>  Jul 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Virtual Private Network (VPN) traffic
>> leakages in dual-stack hosts/networks' document
>>  Sep 2013 - Submit 'BGP operations and security' document to IESG
>>  Sep 2013 - Submit 'Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks' document to
>> IESG
>>  Sep 2013 - Submit 'DHCPv6-Shield: Protecting Against Rogue DHCPv6
>> Servers' document to IESG
>> 
>> 
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