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

Georg, et al -

Sorry, it was recorded in the minutes at the GSMP meeting in Vienna, but not
echoed to the list:
- DCN has been correctly expanded
- I agree with all of the suggested changes.

Jonathan Sadler

Georg Kullgren wrote:

> 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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