Hello,

 

I have been selected as the Routing Directorate reviewer for this draft. The 
Routing Directorate seeks to review all routing or routing-related drafts as 
they pass through IETF last call and IESG review, and sometimes on special 
request. The purpose of the review is to provide assistance to the Routing ADs. 
For more information about the Routing Directorate, please see 
​http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/rtg/trac/wiki/RtgDir

 

Although these comments are primarily for the use of the Routing ADs, it would 
be helpful if you could consider them along with any other IETF Last Call 
comments that you receive, and strive to resolve them through discussion or by 
updating the draft.

 

Document: draft-ietf-intarea-provisioning-domains-09

Reviewer: Russ White

Review Date: 16 December 2019

Intended Status: Standards Track

 

Summary:

 

I have some minor concerns about this document that I think should be resolved 
before publication.

 

Comments:

 

The draft is very readable, explaining the problems being addressed, the 
various options, and the solution in clear and precise language. 

 

Major Issues:

 

No major issues found.

 

Minor Issues:

 

This is really more of a possible addition rather strictly being an issue. 
Section 3.4.4 notes the importance of not allowing DNS queries for PvD 
information to leak into recursive DNS servers. There are security issues here 
that are not mentioned, but might be worth mentioning. Specifically, if a DNS 
query for PvD information is somehow leaked into the recursive DNS system, it 
could reveal information about the querying hosts which could present a 
security breach.

 

This would just be another reason to be added to this section as justification, 
and potentially added to the security considerations section.

 

A second area to consider here is that it might be good to mention having a 
filter or mechanism on the implementing router that allows the user to 
configure filtering PvD information so it is only ever transmitted to attached 
hosts. It may be that some outside attacker could use this information to find 
attack surfaces or do network discovery to prepare for an attack, so it might 
be best to allow the user to keep this information "private" to only the 
intended recipients in some way or another. The network operator shouldn't 
really be using this information to query PvD information, but rather should be 
using some management interface, so this should not impair it's use in any way. 
This may be covered in section 7, but it might need to be a bit more explicit 
(?).

 

/r

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