I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART)
reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see
http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html).
Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments
you may receive.
Document: draft-turner-clearancesponsor-attribute-01.txt
Clearance Sponsor Attribute
Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern
Review Date: 3-August-2009
IETF LC End Date: 14-August-2009
IESG Telechat date: N/A
Summary: This document is almost ready for publication as an
Informational RFC.
Minor issues: In trying to balance versatility and specificity, the
introduction states that the attribute defined in this document may be
used in X, Y, or "locations that support attributes." Given that almost
all our protocols support "attributes" for some meaning of the word, I
think a somewhat better description is called for. It may just suffice
to say "locations or protocols that support ASN.1 definitions of
attributes of entities which may conceptually have been cleared by (some
suitable words)." (Yes, I see that RFC 3281bis uses the same
terminology. It seems confusing to me.)
Nits/editorial comments: Is it really true that world-wide clearances
can always be sponsored by only one entity? The restriction to one
value seems to be a policy statement about a particular approach, so I
wonder if it is correct to capture that in the object definition? Or is
this a US Government only definition? (It doesn't say that, so I am
assuming it has broader applicability than that.)
_______________________________________________
Gen-art mailing list
Gen-art@ietf.org
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
