Hi Mirja,

Please see notes below.  

> On Jan 21, 2025, at 7:32 AM, Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF) <i...@kuehlewind.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 8. Jan 2025, at 00:49, Sandy Ginoza <sgin...@amsl.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Please see comments below. 
>> 
>>> On Jan 7, 2025, at 9:45 AM, Lynne Bartholomew <lbartholo...@amsl.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Mirja: I don’t think security considerations are useful for workshop 
>>>> reports. All workshop reports that I’ve been involved with did not have 
>>>> security considerations but I did see that some other reports do. However, 
>>>> I assume they have mostly been added during AUTH48 based on this kind of 
>>>> request. Particularly just adding the sentence above is not useful and I 
>>>> wouldn’t want to do that just for the sake for process. If we want 
>>>> security consideration we should come up with real ones but as I said I 
>>>> don’t think we should just add anything to report in that respect. I think 
>>>> we should conclude with the IAB to not have security consideration for 
>>>> workshop reports in general in future.
>>> 
>>> [rfced]  Agreed that the section isn't necessary in this case, but for the 
>>> time being, we need to follow our current process, which includes asking 
>>> the Document Shepherd for approval.
> 
> The IAB document shepherd or IAB stream manager or maybe IAB chair?
> 
>>> 
>>> That being said, would you like us to set precedent here by removing the 
>>> Security Considerations and asking the Document Shepherd for approval of 
>>> the new form?
> 
> RFC9490 (M-TEN), RFC9307 (AID), and RFC9075 (COVID) don’t have security 
> consideration. Yes, I’m an author on all of these, however, just saying this 
> one wouldn’t set the precedent.
> 
>> 
>> Jumping in on this one - Security Considerations are required per the RFC 
>> Style Guide (see https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7322.html#section-4.8.5). 
>>  We suggest the following: 
>> 
>>  This document is a workshop report and does not impact the security of the 
>> Internet.
> 
> I’d be fine with that and in this case we should just use this exact same 
> phrasing for all reports in my opinion.

>> 
>> If the IAB would like to discuss special handling for IAB workshop reports, 
>> we prefer having the discussion outside of an AUTH48.  Please let us know if 
>> the text above is acceptable.
> 
> Yes, we can’t decide this for good in the auth48 process, however, we could 
> simply add a short item to the next IAB call. I don’t think this would need a 
> long discussion…

The Security Considerations section is a Series-wide requirement per the RFC 
Style Guide [1].  RFC 3552 [2] also indicates that "All RFCs are required to 
have a Security Considerations section.” If we want to change this, we’d like 
to discuss this as a potential Series-wide change.

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7322.html#section-4.8.5
[2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3552.html

Thanks,
Sandy 

> 
> Mirja
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Sandy
> 

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