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Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Document: draft-ietf-mboned-addrarch-07.txt Reviewer: Mary Barnes Review Date: 07 April 2011 IETF LC End Date: 28 March 2011 Summary: Ready with minor issues. Minor issues: - Introduction, 3rd paragraph notes that this document only deals with the ASM model, yet the 2nd paragraph in section 2 notes that the address assignment inside the node for SSM is discussed. I would suggest to reword the 3rd paragraph in section 1 and it seems that the 2nd paragraph is section 2 is redundant. - Section 7, 1st paragraph notes that "the security analysis of the mentioned protocols is out of scope of this memo". However, the next paragraph notes that "the dynamic assignment protocol are inherently vulnerable…". Thus, I would suggest changing the first paragraph to something like the following (and removing 2nd): This memo only describes the approaches to allocating and assigning multicast addresses for existing protocols and thus adds no additional security considerations beyond those specified for the referenced protocols. Additional security analysis of these protocols is outside the scope of this document. Although, it should be noted the dynamic assignment protocols are inherently vulnerable to resource exhaustion attacks as discussed in [RFC2730]. In addition, if the intention was to highlight a security issue that should be resolved, then perhaps adding another bullet to section 4.3 would be appropriate. Obviously, especially the dynamic assignment protocols are inherently vulnerable to resource exhaustion attacks, as discussed e.g., in [RFC2730]. Nits/editorial comments: - Section 2, "as described below" might be better worded as "as described in subsequent sections", although I think it would make the document more readable to summarize the mechanisms in a bulleted list and add section references. - Section 3 - same comment as for section 2.
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