Re: IESG review of: draft-ietf-gsmp-reqs-06.txt

Hi Bert,

Sorry for the late reply but I've been away from email for a while...
I have no issues with the proposed changes.
See comments below:

Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> The IESG yesterday discussed this documment.
> With the following RFC-Editor note the document can be
> approved. Before we send out that approval, we'd like
> to give GSMP WG a chance to review and let us know if
> this is OK. 
> 
> Pls check if I did correctly expand DCN
> 
> RFC-Editor notes:
> 
> 1) Third paragraph of section 2.5 - expand DCN.
>    OLD:
>      used in legacy DCN environments that use OSI CLNP.
>    NEW:
>      used in legacy Data Communication Network (DCN) environments
>      that use OSI CLNP.

I'm not the one to ask about this...
Jonathan?

> 
> 2) For section 2.5 -  Add a final paragraph:
> 
>    The security risks of additional non-IP encapsulations MUST be
>    described, since the mandatory to implement mechanism of IPsec
>    is not available for these control channels, as in the RFC 3293
>    Ethernet and ATM cases.  It is in scope to perform risk analysis
>    and describe if mechanisms for link-level security mitigate the
>    risk.

I agree with this one.
Security should definately be considered.

> 
> 
> 3) reword text in section 3.3
> 
>    OLD:
>      A retransmission policy should be used if no reply is 
>      received for a  message with "AckAll" set.
>    NEW:
>      A retransmission policy with a well-designed exponential
>      backoff should be used if no reply is received for a
>      message with "AckAll" set.

Sounds good to me!
An exponential backoff would be the preferred way and it doesn't hurt
to put that in the requirements.

> 
> Bert and Allison
> 
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/Georg
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