Re: [OSPF] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-ospf-segment-routing-extensions-19

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On 10/5/17, 7:05 AM, "OSPF on behalf of Dan Romascanu"
<ospf-bounces@xxxxxxxx on behalf of dromasca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Reviewer: Dan Romascanu
>Review result: Ready with Issues
>
>I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. The General Area
>Review Team (Gen-ART) reviews all IETF documents being processed
>by the IESG for the IETF Chair.  Please treat these comments just
>like any other last call comments.
>
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>Document: draft-ietf-ospf-segment-routing-extensions-19
>Reviewer: Dan Romascanu
>Review Date: 2017-10-05
>IETF LC End Date: 2017-10-13
>IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat
>
>Summary:
>
>A useful and well-written document. It requires previous reading and
>understanding of OSPF, SPRING and other routing work. It is Ready for
>publication. I found some unclear minor issues. I recommend to address
>them
>before approval and publication.
>
>Major issues:
>
>Minor issues:
>
>1. I am wondering why, at this stage of progress of the document, the type
>values are still 'TBD, suggested value x'. Is there any other document
>defining
>this?
>
>2. Section 3.1 - are there other algorithms planned to be added in the
>future?
>If yes, do we need a registry? If no, what is this field an octet?
>
>3. It would be useful to mention that the Length fields are expressed in
>Octets. Also please clarify if padding is applied or not.
>
>4. Section 3.3:
>
>'The originating router MUST NOT advertise overlapping ranges.'
>
>How are conflicts resolved at receiver?
>
>5. I like Section 9 - Implementation Status - which I found rather
>useful. Is
>there any chance to keep a trimmed down version of it, with synthetic
>information on the lines of 'at the time the document was discussed a
>survey
>was run, it showed that there were x implementation, y were implementing
>the
>full specification, z were included in released production software ....'
>
>6. Section 10 - beyond recommending the counting and logging of the
>mal-formed
>TLVs and sub-TLVs, should not supplementary security recommendations be
>made?
>for example - throttling mechanisms to preempt DoS attacks.

The generic OSPFv2 security considerations are referenced as well. Can you
be specific as to why you think there additional considerations specific
to these extensions? Perhaps, we should start work on a generic IGP
protocol security considerations document that is more comprehensive than
what we have done before.

Thanks,
Acee


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