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Re: [secdir] Sector Review: draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions-09

2015-01-05 15:19:30
On 5 January 2015 at 21:18, Ben Laurie <benl(_at_)google(_dot_)com> wrote:
On 5 January 2015 at 21:06, Randy Bush <randy(_at_)psg(_dot_)com> wrote:
The document contains no issues from a security perspective as it is
only creating LSA’s for new types of route selection metrics, time
instead of network hops.

and the new lsas could not be used in path shortening attacks, right?

this document only defines the format of the LSA’s it does
not talk about processing by the routing engines.

so the secdir sees no need to warn about it.  got it.  </sarcasm>

If secdir is going to warn about it through this process, then shortly

Good grief. Surely.

the right place to do that is in the comments on the document that
does talk about processing by the routing engines?