Subject: [secdir] Sector Review of draft-ietf-mile-iodef-guidance-10

From: Catherine Meadows <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:52:27 -0400

I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's 
ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the 
IESG.  These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the 
security area directors.  Document editors and WG chairs should treat 
these comments just like any other last call comments.

The summary of the review is Ready With Nits.

This document contains advice on using the Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF) to describe incident reports.  In contains general
guidelines.  No security-related issues are addressed; in particular guidance on setting restrictions is avoided. In the security considerations section,
the authors point out that this document  introduces no new security concerns other than those already addressed in RFC7870 (the IODEF RFC), and reader is referred to  RFC7970 
for any security questions.

I agree with this, and I don’t see any need for making substantive changes.  There are a couple of nits though:

1.  The sentence at the bottom of page 6, beginning “IODEF implementations SHOULD not consider using their own
IODEF extensions unless …” doesn’t parse.  I think you can get the meaning you intended by removing the
words “”is not a suitable option” at the end.

2.  The “Nevertheless” at the beginning of the second sentence of the Security Considerations section is confusing.  The second sentence
doesn’t contradict the first; it merely elaborates on it.  I’d suggest removing the word “Nevertheless.”

Cathy Meadows

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