Re: AD comments on draft-ietf-rserpool-enrp-17, draft-ietf-rserpool-asap-17, draft-ietf-rserpool-common-param-13

Magnus Westerlund <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:41:57 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rserpool
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I am expecting another updated to ASAP to handle these last comments 
regarding the IANA code points.

Cheers

Magnus

Magnus Westerlund skrev:
> Michael Tuexen skrev:
>>>>>
>>>>> A2. Section 7.2: Also what is the security solution for multicast.
>>>> Not sure what the problem is... The receiver should trust the
>>>> information
>>>> in the received multicast message the same way as preconfigured
>>>> information.
>>>> It gets an address which might or might no belong to a trustworthy
>>>> ENRP server. Other mechanisms have t be used for authentication.
>>> Okay, then it maybe should be explicit about that the multicast messages
>>> are not at all trustworthy. I am also worried that one basically can
>>> inject a lot of server announcement messages and that way push the valid
>>> servers into minority so that a client will try all this invalid servers
>>> and never find a valid one.
>> That is possible. But using the Multicast messages is completely optional.
>> They are not secured by IPSec or TLS so you can not  trust them...
>> So what are you expecting here? A sentence or two in the security
>> considerations
>> describing the above?
> 
> Yes, explaining that there is security issues here, but we are not
> resolving them currently. And that with the exception of the DDOS vector
> they are any resolved by the later security mechanism.
> 
> 
>>>>> A11. Section 6:
>>>>>
>>>>> ASAP well known port registration? Is this not needed as the ENRP
>>>>> protocol will always provide the port? Is that true both for PE and
>>>>> ENRP?
>>>> Well, only if multicast is used. In the other case, the well known port
>>>> is used.
>>> Please include in the IANA section a listing of the well known ports
>>> that have been assigned. I also think you should include a request to
>>> update the reference for these ports to this document.
>> I'm not sure what you want here. If you look at
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
>> and search for asap you will find:
>>
>> #                          Yoshikazu Watanabe <nabe&sm.sony.co.jp>
>> asap-tcp        3863/tcp   asap tcp port
>> asap-udp        3863/udp   asap udp port
>> #                          Lyndon Ong <lyong&ciena.com> August 2003
>> asap-sctp       3863/sctp  asap sctp
>> #                          Lyndon Ong <lyong&ciena.com> November 2005
>> asap-tcp-tls    3864/tcp   asap/tls tcp port
>> #                          Lyndon Ong <lyong&ciena.com> August 2003
>> asap-sctp-tls   3864/sctp  asap-sctp/tls
>> #                          Lyndon Ong <lyong&ciena.com> June 2006
>>
>> and for enrp
>>
>> enrp        9901/udp    enrp server channel
>> enrp-sctp    9901/sctp   enrp server channel
>> #                Lyndon Ong <lyong&ciena.com> June 2006
>> enrp-sctp-tls    9902/sctp   enrp/tls server channel
>> #                Lyndon Ong <lyong&ciena.com> June 2006
>>
>> If I look at other entries in the document I do not see references
>> to RFCs.
>>
>> So would it be enough to just list these assignments in the IANA section?
> 
> I would propose that these registrations are transfered over to IETF and
> having the documents actually being referenced. If you search a bit you
> will find that some port numbers do have RFC numbers as the reference.
> 
> So include the list of port numbers in the relevant drafts and then
> include a request to IANA to update these registrations to point at the
> documents. I assume Lyndon is fine with this. But he is the current
> owner of these registrations so he probably needs to notify IANA that he
> is fine when they actually process the request.
> 
> 
> 
>> I guess that we should also list the PPID assignments and request an
>> update for the reference in
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/sctp-parameters
>>
>> SCTP Payload Protocol Identifiers                         Reference
>> --------------------------------------------------------  ---------
>>   0 - Reserved by SCTP                                    [RFC4960]
>>   1 - IUA                                                 [RFC4233]
>>   2 - M2UA                                                [RFC3331]
>>   3 - M3UA                                                [RFC4666]
>>   4 - SUA                                                 [RFC2960]
>>   5 - M2PA                                                [RFC2960]
>>   6 - V5UA                                                [RFC2960]
>>   7 - H.248                                               [H.248]
>>   8 - BICC/Q.2150.3                                         
>> [Q.1902.1][Q.2150.3]
>>   9 - TALI                                                [RFC3094]
>>  10 - DUA                                                 [RFC4129]
>>  11 - ASAP       <draft-ietf-rserpool-asap-03.txt>        [Ong]
>>  12 - ENRP       <draft-ietf-rserpool-enrp-03.txt>        [Ong]
>>  13 - H.323                                               [H.323]
>>  14 - Q.IPC/Q.2150.3                                     
>> [Q.2631.1][Q.2150.3]
>>  15 - SIMCO      <draft-kiesel-midcom-simco-sctp-00.txt>  [Kiesel]
>>  16 - DDP Segment Chunk                                   [RFC5043]
>>  17 - DDP Stream Session Control                          [RFC5043]
>>
>> Do you agree?
> 
> You shouldn't list all the PPIDs. Only request that IANA updates the
> ones that are created by the RSERPOOL documents to point at the RSERPOOL
> documents.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Magnus Westerlund
> 
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