Peter, thank you for your review. I have entered a Discuss ballot for this 
document based on my own review.

Lars


> On 2022-5-28, at 23:59, Peter Yee via Datatracker <nore...@ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> Reviewer: Peter Yee
> Review result: Ready with Issues
> 
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> Document: draft-ietf-ipsecme-iptfs-12
> Reviewer: Peter Yee
> Review Date: 2022-05-27
> IETF LC End Date: 2022-05-18
> IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat
> 
> Summary: This draft specifies an improved method for countering traffic
> analysis of IPsec tunnels. There are some nits and minor issues that should be
> addressed. I did not evaluate the appendices for correctness. [Ready with
> issues.]
> 
> Major issues: None
> 
> Minor issues:
> 
> Page 7, 3rd paragraph, 1st sentence (and elsewhere in the document): You make
> reference to the “user” and what the “user” is supposed to do. I can’t begin 
> to
> imagine an ordinary user coming up with an optimal window size or do some of
> the other things that are being required. Do you really want to put this
> requirement on a user, or should it be a different entity, such as the IP-TFS
> implementation?
> 
> Page 13, 1st partial paragraph: How would the referenced AGGFRAG_PAYLOAD empty
> payload be recognized? The ESP Next Header won’t indicate that the contents is
> an AGGFRAG_PAYLOAD because the SA isn’t an AGGFRAG_PAYLOAD SA.
> 
> Page 13, 2nd full paragraph: the unnumbered figure from page 17 would be 
> really
> helpful here given how many disparate header fields are referenced in this and
> the following paragraphs. Page 15, section 6.1: RFC 4303 says, “The Next 
> Header
> is a mandatory, 8-bit field that identifies the type of data contained in the
> Payload Data field, e.g., an IPv4 or IPv6 packet, or a next layer header and
> data.  The value of this field is chosen from the set of IP Protocol Numbers
> defined on the web page of the IANA, e.g., a value of 4 indicates IPv4, a 
> value
> of 41 indicates IPv6, and a value of 6 indicates TCP.” Thus, I don’t believe
> you can arbitrarily choose 0x5. See the registry at
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers/protocol-numbers.xhtml.
> 
> Nits/editorial comments:
> 
> General:
> 
> Insert a hyphen between “congestion” and “controlled” throughout the document.
> This includes the “non-“ cases as well.
> 
> Insert a hyphen between “AGGFRAG_PAYLOAD” and “enabled” throughout the
> document. This includes the “non-“ cases as well.
> 
> Change “inner-packet” to “inner packet”. The latter already predominates
> throughout the document, noting also that “outer packet” never appears in
> hyphenated form.
> 
> Ensure that all the figures have proper captions with numbers. For example, 
> the
> figures on pages 16, 17, 18, and 19 aren’t labeled. The figure on page 17 
> could
> really use a number so that there can be a pointer from page 13 if the figure
> isn’t moved to page 13, as suggested above.
> 
> Specific:
> 
> Page 1, Abstract, 1st sentence: change “payload” to “payloads”. Or change “ESP
> payload” to “an ESP payload”. I can see arguments either way, but the sentence
> needs one or the other.
> 
> Page 5, 1st paragraph, 2nd sentence: delete a duplicated “the” before “tunnel
> packets”.
> 
> Page 5, Figure 1: change “subtype” to “sub-type” to match usage in the rest of
> the document.
> 
> Page 6, 3rd paragraph: append a comma after “outer”.
> 
> Page 7, 4th paragraph, last sentence: “one” who? What entity is supposed to be
> making this choice?
> 
> Please 7, 4th paragraph, 1st sentence: append a comma after “note”.
> 
> Page 7, 4th paragraph, 3rd sentence: delete “amount of”.
> 
> Page 7, 5th paragraph, 1st sentence: consider changing “with no gaps” to
> “consecutively”.
> 
> Page 8, section 2.2.3.1, 1st paragraph, last sentence: delete the comma after
> “researching”.
> 
> Page 9, section 2.2.5.3, 1st sentence: append a comma after “default”.
> 
> Page 10, section 2.3, 1st sentence: insert a hyphen between “AGGFRAG_PAYLOAD”
> and “enabled”.
> 
> Page 10, section 2.4.1, 2nd paragraph, 3rd sentence: append a comma after
> “case”. Append a period after “etc”.
> 
> Page 10, section 2.4.2, 1st paragraph, 2nd sentence: append a comma after
> “transport”.
> 
> Page 11, 1st partial paragraph: change “packet” to “packets”. Append a closing
> parenthesis after “congestion”.
> 
> Page 11, 1st full paragraph, 1st sentence: insert a hyphen between “TCP” and
> “friendly”.
> 
> Page 11, 3rd paragraph, 1st sentence: insert a hyphen between “IP-TFS” and
> “enabled”.
> 
> Page 11, 4th paragraph: append a comma after the closing parenthesis.
> 
> Page 12, 1st partial paragraph, 1st full sentence: delete this sentence as it
> doesn’t really add anything. But if you are unwilling to delete the sentence,
> then change “are” to “is”.
> 
> Page 12, section 2.5, 1st paragraph: insert a hyphen between “AGGFRAG” and
> “enabled”.
> 
> Page 12, section 2.5, 2nd paragraph, 3rd sentence: append a comma after “For
> partial packets”. Delete “the” before “they”.
> 
> Page 12, section 2.5, 2nd paragraph, 4th sentence: insert “the” before
> “AGGFRAG_PAYLOAD”.
> 
> Page 12, section 2.5, 3rd paragraph, 1st sentence: insert “an” before
> “in-order”.
> 
> Page 12, section 2.5 3rd paragraph, 2nd sentence: change “make sure” to
> “ensure”, if you care. “Tastes light” vs. “less filling”, I suppose. Change
> “in-order” to “in order”. Insert “a” between “when” and “lost”. Also consider
> breaking up the sentence into multiple sentences because of its sheer length.
> For example, the final parenthetical potion could be a whole sentence on its
> own.
> 
> Page 12, section 3, 2nd sentence: change “it’s” to “its”.
> 
> Page 13, 2nd full paragraph, 2nd sentence: change “locally, subsequent” to
> “locally. Subsequent”.
> 
> Page 13, 3rd paragraph, 1st sentence: expand the initialism “CC”. I’m assuming
> “Congestion Control”. It’s not in the RFC Editor’s list of abbreviations.
> 
> Page 13, 4th paragraph, 3rd sentence: change “senders” to “sender’s”.
> 
> Page 16, section 6.1.1, 1st paragraph: change “4 octet” to 4-octet”.
> 
> Page 16, section 6.1.1, “Reserved” definition: delete the comma after
> “generation”.
> 
> Page 17, section 6.1.2, “Reserved” definition: delete the comma after
> “generation”.
> 
> Page 17, section 6.1.2, “P” and “E” definitions: insert “that” before “if”.
> 
> Page 18, “Echo Delay” and “Transmit Delay” definitions, 2nd sentence: change
> “value” to “delay” because by definition, the value cannot be larger than
> 0x1FFFFF, while the delay can be. Change “it” to “the value”.
> 
> Page 18, “Datablocks” definition: 2nd sentence: change “an” to “a”. Insert a
> hyphen between “non-IP-TFS” and “enabled”. Consider changing “value” to 
> “field”
> because DataBlocks isn’t really a value.
> 
> Page 19, section 6.1.3.1, figure: shouldn’t the “TypeOfService” field be the
> “DiffServ” field instead?
> 
> Page 20, section 6.1.4, “0” definition: delete the comma.
> 
> Page 21, 1st paragraph, last sentence: change “it’s” to “its”.
> 
> Page 22, section 8, 1st paragraph, 1st sentence: change “it” to “its”.
> 
> Page 22, section 8, 3rd paragraph: append a comma after “maintained” and after
> “would be”.
> 
> Page 24, Appendix A, title: change “Of” to “of”.
> 
> Page 24, Appendix A, 1st paragraph, 1st sentence: append a comma after 
> “Below”.
> 
> Page 25, Figure 3: Explain what the 1500 means.
> 
> Page 25, 1st paragraph: change “800 octet” to “800-octet” twice. Make a 
> similar
> change for “60”, “240”, and “4000”.
> 
> Page 25, 2nd paragraph, 2nd sentence: place “ESP1” in parentheses.
> 
> Page 25, 2nd paragraph, 3rd sentence: change “packet ESP2s” to “packet’s
> (ESP2)”. Change “60 octet” to “60-octet”.
> 
> Page 25, 2nd paragraph, 4th sentence: place “ESP3” in parentheses. Change 
> “4000
> octet” to “4000-octet”. Change “forth” to “fourth”.
> 
> Page 25, 2nd paragraph, 5th sentence: change “packet ESP4s” to “packet’s
> (ESP4)”. Append a comma after “1400”. Change “4000 octet” to “4000-octet”.
> 
> Page 25, Appendix B, 1st sentence: change “TCP friendly” to “TCP-friendly”.
> 
> Page 25, Appendix B, 2nd sentence: change “TCP friendly” to “TCP-friendly”.
> 
> Page 25, Appendix B, 3rd sentence: append a comma after “[RFC4342])”.
> 
> Page 25, Appendix B, 3rd paragraph: append a comma after “addition”.
> 
> Page 26, 1st paragraph, 2nd sentence: append a comma after “[RFC5348]”.
> 
> Page 26, section C.1, 1st paragraph, 1st sentence: append a comma after
> “overhead”.
> 
> Page 26, section C.1.1, 1st sentence: append a comma after “For comparison”.
> Insert “an” before “AGGFRAG”.
> 
> Page 26 section C.1.1, 2nd sentence: append a comma after “Therefore”. Change
> “fractional” to “fractions”.
> 
> Page 27, 1st formula: change “Paylaod” to “Payload”.
> 
> Page 28, section C.3, 3rd sentence: insert a hyphen between “well” and
> “understood”.
> 
> Page 28, section C.3.1, 2nd sentence: change the second “and” to “an”. Append 
> a
> comma after the closing parenthesis.
> 
> Page 28, section C.3.1, 3rd sentence: append a comma after “Additionally”.
> 
> Page 30, 1st paragraph, 1st sentence: append a hyphen after “small”. Insert a
> hyphen between “medium” and “sized”.
> 
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