Hi, Thanks for the quick response and for addressing my comments.
See in-line. Regards, Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Viktor Dukhovni [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 6:23 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Cc: Romascanu, Dan (Dan) > Subject: Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-dane-smtp-with-dane-16 > > On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 02:58:42PM +0000, Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote: > > > Ready with minor comments. > > > > I liked the operational considerations section and the security > > consideration section - very useful in putting this work in the > > context of other similar contributions. > > Thanks. > > > Minor issues: > > > > As the document uses heavily the term 'downgrade' (downgrade attack, > > downgrade-resistant) it would be nice to either explain or provide a > > reference for what it means in the context of this work. > > In RFC 4949, at the bottom of page 112 we find: > > downgrade attack > (I) A type of man-in-the-middle attack in which the attacker can > cause two parties, at the time they negotiate a security > association, to agree on a lower level of protection than the > highest level that could have been supported by both of them. > > We could add "downgrade attack" to the terminology, and briefly define > "downgrade resistance" under the same heading. Alternatively, since the > primary downgrade at issue is stripping of STARTTLS, some additional text > could be added in 1.3.1 to introduce the terms. > > Any advice on how to proceed? > I personally preferring having all key terms in one place - this makes reading easier. So I would go for inserting text in the terminology section with proper reference to RFC 4949. > > Nits/editorial comments: > > > > The last paragraph in section 2.2.1, page 15 has a comment marked > > twice by --. This may be an editorial left-over to be corrected. > > That's what the RFC editor's xml2rfc does with "—". When I run > xml2rfc, it produces "richer" HTML output, in which the mdashes remain as > such. Should I avoid "—"? Yes - and talk with the tools team, this may be a bug > > -- > Viktor. _______________________________________________ dane mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dane
