Andy: 

 

Rather than state “data model as 'non-confidential' remains a flawed” in the 
abstract, can we simply discuss the specifics I listed? 

 

1)      BGP information publically sent as part of route-views

Sent as an  event stream from an I2RS client 

 

2)      Web server “up” messages sent as an event 

With the text similar to:   “go-to-me.com web server is up”  where “go-to-me” 
is a public name. 

 

Please consider in terms of an Event stream model we are working in the push.  
Remember the configuration of the stream is via secure servers, and what we are 
talking about is listeners to the stream.  

 

Sue Hares         

 

From: Andy Bierman [mailto:a...@yumaworks.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 1:07 PM
To: Juergen Schoenwaelder; Susan Hares; Andy Bierman; Lou Berger; 
i2rs@ietf.org; Alissa Cooper; i2rs-cha...@ietf.org; Kathleen Moriarty; IESG; 
Jeffrey Haas; Joel Halpern; 
draft-ietf-i2rs-protocol-security-requireme...@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [i2rs] Kathleen Moriarty's Discuss on 
draft-ietf-i2rs-protocol-security-requirements-07: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

 

 

 

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Juergen Schoenwaelder 
<j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de> wrote:

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:55:53PM -0400, Susan Hares wrote:
> Andy:
>
>
>
> The easy of reviewing per leaf – is why I suggested the per leaf.
>
> I also agree it is important to mention this non-secure/secure requirement to 
> the PUSH work team we are both on.
>
>
>
> Should I change:
>
> Old: /
>
>    A non-secure transport can be used for publishing telemetry data or
>
>    other operational state that was specifically indicated to non-
>
>    confidential in the data model in the Yang syntax. /
>
> New:
>
> /   A non-secure transport can be used for publishing telemetry data or
>
>    other operational state that was specifically indicated to non-
>
>    confidential in the data model. /
>

Tagging something in the data model as 'non-confidential' remains a
flawed idea. What can be considered 'non-confidential' depends on the
deployment scenario. It is even worse to standardize some piece of
information as 'non-confidential'. How can the IETF claim that
something is always 'non-confidential'? (And note, a non-secure
transport is not just about confidentiality, it also implies that
boxes on the path can arbitrarily change the information.)

 

This additional note is quite interesting.

It is 1 thing to decide if the data is public info or not.

(Assume security guidelines could be provided that clearly define that.)

 

It is quite another to say "it's OK if the monitoring data gets modified in 
flight".

I can't imagine any use-cases for that.

 

 

In case this is not clear: What we have done for ~30 years is to have
the decision which information goes into an insecure transport be
taken by an access control model. This makes the decision runtime
configurable and thus things can be deployment specific. This has
worked for 30 years and I have no problem with this. What I am
struggling with is the idea to standardize parts of YANG data models
as 'non-confidential'.

/js

 

 

Andy

 

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