> On Dec 6, 2024, at 06:38, Valery Smyslov <smyslov.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> thank you for your review. Please, see inline.
> 
>>> Subject: [IPsec] WGLC for draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2-rename-esn
>> 
>> I am in favour of adoption and have reviewed the document. Thanks to Valery 
>> for
>> writing this draft.
>> 
>> Comments:
>> 
>> I don't like the phrase "Transform ID 0" because each transform type has its 
>> own
>> transform id 0. I would prefer to use Transform Type 5 and talk about the 
>> value 0,
>> etc.
> 
> "Transform ID" is the official name for transform type values :-)
> 
> I think that you are referring to the bulleted list at page 5, right?
> 
> If we change this text as following (leaving other places where transform IDs 
> are mentioned intact):
> 
> * Value 0 for transform type 5 defines [...]
> * Value 1 for transform type 5 defines [...]
> 
> will this resolve your concern?

Yes

> 
>> I would remove everything but the last sentence from Section 4 Security
>> Considerations.  eg just say nothing changes. It removes repetition and it 
>> doesn't
>> really beling in this section anyway.
> 
> OK.
> 
>> nits:
>> 
>> The receiver maintains sliding window -> The receiver maintains a sliding 
>> window
>> 
>> and are instead deducted -> and are instead deduced
> 
> Fixed.
> 
>> Since the decision whether to enable anti-replay protection is ultimately 
>> taken by
>> the receiver
>> 
>> Since the decision whether to enable anti-replay protection is taken by the 
>> receiver
>> independently of the sender
> 
> Hmm... I'm not sure that this is a good change. "Independently" to my ear 
> sounds
> like we can imagine an alternative, when receiver's decision could depend on 
> sender,
> which is not the case. Perhaps the better text would be:
> 
> OLD:
> Since the decision whether to enable anti-replay protection is taken by the 
> receiver
> 
> NEW:
> Since the decision whether to enable anti-replay protection is taken by the 
> receiver based only on the receiver's local policy

Looks good.

> 
>> Both AH and ESP specifications allow the sender to relax their duties of 
>> maintaining
>> Both AH and ESP specifications allow the sender to avoid maintaining


>> 
>> if there is a way to notify the sender  ->  if the sender has been notified
> 
> I'm unsure that this is the correct change too. To my ear, the new text
> implies that there was a possibility in the protocol to notify the sender,
> but for some reason it wasn't happen. Instead, the current text tries
> to say that currently there is no way to notify the sender.
> 
> Perhaps better "if the sender could be notified" ?

Could be is not strong enough. If we extend IKEv2 it could be (but not have 
been) notified.

How about

if the sender has been notified somehow


> 
>> AH and ESP rely on the Internet Key Exchange protocol version 2 -> AH and ESP
>> are usually established using the Internet Key Exchange protocol
> 
> Fixed.

And yes, make the doc Standards Track so we don’t get any downref issues later. 
It modifies a standard track RFC. It doesn’t matter that it doesn’t add entries 
to any registries.

Paul
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