Re: Gen-ART Telechat Review of draft-thornburgh-adobe-rtmfp-09

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Thanks Michael, that note would completely resolve my concern, and change my review summary to "ready for publication".

Ben.

On Jul 9, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Michael Thornburgh <mthornbu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi Ben.
> 
> your "like to see" is entirely reasonable, and the following text will be in the next revision once my AD or Document Shepherd directs me to post it:
> 
>   Note to implementers: at the time of writing, the Cryptography
>   Profile used by the above mentioned Adobe products is not publicly
>   described by Adobe.  Implementers should investigate the availability
>   of documentation of that Cryptography Profile prior to implementing
>   RTMFP for the purpose of interoperation with the above mentioned
>   Adobe products.
> 
> thank you.
> 
> -michael thornburgh
> 
> 
>> From: Ben Campbell [mailto:ben@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:59 PM
>> 
>> I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, please see the FAQ at <
>> http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq>.
>> 
>> Please wait for direction from your document shepherd or AD before posting a new version of the draft.
>> 
>> Document: draft-thornburgh-adobe-rtmfp-09
>> Reviewer: Ben Campbell
>> Review Date: 2013-07-09
>> IESG Telechat date: 2013-07-11
>> 
>> Summary: This draft is essentially ready for publication as an informational RFC. There is one issue
>> from my previous review and related discussion that I think is almost, but not completely handled. All
>> other concerns from my previous review have been addressed in this version.
>> 
>> Major issues:
>> 
>> There has been a fair amount of discussion about how this protocol requires a crypto profile to
>> interoperate, and no such profiles are included, or otherwise widely published. If this were a
>> standards track draft, I would argue for at least one mandatory-to-implement profile to be included or
>> referenced. But since this is intended as an informational RFC that simply describes what certain
>> products are doing, that's probably okay.  Furthermore, the author added a paragraph to the
>> introduction specifically calling out the issue, which I applaud.
>> 
>> But I'd like to see that paragraph go a bit further, and explicitly mention any such profile needed to
>> interoperate with the commercial products mentioned in the 2nd paragraph of section 1 has not been
>> made available at the time of RFC publication, and that implementors should investigate the
>> availability of such a profile prior to implementing this protocol for the purposes of interoperating
>> with those products.
>> 
>> Minor issues:
>> 
>> None.
>> 
>> Nits/editorial comments:
>> 
>> None.






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