Hi, Justin,
The changes are acceptable to me. None of my points were strongly
enough held to be considered more than nits. Thank you for considering them.
Kind regards,
-Peter
On 6/18/23, 12:13 AM, "Justin Iurman" <justin.iur...@uliege.be> wrote:
Hi Peter,
We just published a new version (-06) that should address your review.
Thanks,
Justin
On 6/7/23 18:50, Peter Yee via Datatracker wrote:
> Reviewer: Peter Yee
> Review result: Ready with Nits
>
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> Document: draft-ietf-opsec-probe-attribution-05
> Reviewer: Peter Yee
> Review Date: 2023-06-07
> IETF LC End Date: 2023-06-08
> IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat
>
> Summary: This informative specification indicates how good-intentioned
> researchers may alert receivers (or intermediaries) of their probe
traffic as
> to what the probes are and how to contact the researchers. The document is
> reasonably well written, but it has some nits that should be corrected
prior to
> publication. [Ready with nits]
>
> Major issues: None
>
> Minor issues: None
>
> Nits/editorial comments:
>
> Page 1, Abstract, last sentence: rearrange “what is its purpose” to “what
its
> purpose is” for parallel construction and ease of reading.
>
> Page 3, 1st paragraph, 1st sentence: change “parties” to “parties’” (if
this
> should be plural) or “party’s” (if this should be singular).
>
> Page 3, 1st paragraph, 2nd sentence: change “where” to “that”.
>
> Page 3, 2nd bullet item: change “what is its purpose” to “what its
purpose is”
> for the same reasons as in the abstract.
>
> Page 4, 1st paragraph after the two bullet items: change “one line” to
> “one-line”.
>
> Page 3, section 3, 1st paragraph, 1st sentence: Probe inclusion hasn’t
even
> been discussed at this point, so “As an alternative” is not appropriate
here.
> Either swap the in-band and out-of-band sections or reword. I prefer
swapping,
> but it’s possible this already happened once and hence the odd phrasing
> considering the current ordering.
>
> Page 5, 1st, 2nd, and 5th bullet items: change the first “a” to “an” if
the
> [RFCxxxx] reference is considered silent or all of them to “an” if the
> reference is expected to be read as part of the sentence.
>
> Page 6, 1st paragraph, last sentence at “multiple possibilities”: Are
multiple
> in-band options allowed or suggested? Is there “concatenation” of multiple
> probe methods applied by different probe generators or for different
research
> purposes? If so or even if not, a discussion here might be worthwhile.
>
> Page 6, section 5, 1st paragraph, 1st sentence: I’m not sure what is
meant by
> “will”. Do you mean “intent”?
>
> Page 6, section 5, 2nd paragraph, last sentence: regarding “dynamic source
> addresses”, why would this be a problem? The web server would presumably
be on
> the same IP address as probe generation, so, as the IP address changes,
the web
> server would appear on the new address. There might be a short period
where
> this isn’t the case, but it seems the overall inability to reach a web
server
> for the out-of-band option is small unless the address changes frequently.
>
> Page 7, section 6, 1st paragraph: move “unsolicited” before “transit”.
>
> Page 7, section 6, 2nd paragraph: change “identity” to “identify”.
>
> Page 7, section 6, 2nd paragraph: It’s not clear to me that unsolicited
transit
> parties necessarily have much recourse or that the probe sender can
effect much
> change in their use other than not sending probes at all.
>
> Page 7, section 6, 3rd paragraph, 1st sentence: remove the space between
> “valid” and “?”.
>
> Page 7, section 7, 2nd paragraph, 3rd sentence: move “would” before
“this”.
>
>
>
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