Thank you for your review, Francis.  This was helpful.  I think it will add 
additional clarity.

Joe

> On Feb 18, 2020, at 10:02, Francis Dupont <francis.dup...@fdupont.fr> wrote:
> 
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> Document: draft-ietf-opsawg-sdi-02.txt
> Reviewer: Francis Dupont
> Review Date: 20200212
> IETF LC End Date: 20200218
> IESG Telechat date: unknown
> 
> Summary: Almost Ready
> 
> Major issues: None
> 
> Minor issues: crypto use details are missing. IMHO it is a problem of
> presentation, I propose:
> - make only requirements in the first/normative part
> - put all details in the appendix/demo part
> 
> Nits/editorial comments:
>  - ToC page 2 and 8 page 11: Acknowledgements -> Acknowledgments
> 
>  - 2 page 4: there are two kinds of certificates so I suggest at the
>   first occurrence to put "public key certificate".
> 
>  - 2 page 5, 2.2 page 5, 4.2 page 6, 5.3 page 10, 7 page 11: e.g -> e.g.,
> 
>  - 3.1 page 5: as an example of something which could be specified but
>   IMHO should not be: the certificate has (extended) key usages and
>   other policy parameters.
> 
>  - 4.2 page 6: in "The operator will then encrypt the
>   initial configuration to the key in the certifcate"
>    * the "to" seems a bit strange to me (I expected "with" but I am
>      not a native English speaker)
>    * public key crypto does not provide a way to directly encrypt
>      a large amount of data. IMHO it is not a real problem: just
>      require the key is used to protect the initial configuration
>    * it will be fine to have a bit more than confidentiality, for
>      instance to protect integrity or at least the data length.
>    Last both points are handled by SMIME so again it is only a
>    presentation problem.
> 
>  - 4.3 page 7: Add that DHCP option 66 is TFTP server name and
>    option 150 is TFTP server address.
> 
>  - 5.1 page 10: I've checked (googled it) the TPM abbrev and it seems
>    the common usage in the context is the expected one (BTW it is
>    not in the RFC editor abbrev table).
> 
>  - B.1.1 page 13: IMHO it is a good diea to give the OpenSSL command
>    line (OpenSSL man pages are more than cryptic :-).
> 
>  - B.2.2 page 14: I support the choice of S/MIME: it does the job
>    (including length check) and it is commonly available.
>    Of course there should be better ways but it is clearly far
>    better than a home made solution. BTW as it is encoded ASN.1 it
>    is trivial to recognize (i.e., no ambiguity with ASCII text).
> 
> - B.3 page 15: then then -> then
> 
> Regards
> 
> francis.dup...@fdupont.fr
> 
> PS: I removed spelling errors which were fixed in version 03.

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