On 1/22/15 3:39 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2015, at 4:32 PM, joel jaeggli <[email protected]> wrote:
>> After some dicussion last year, I have agreed to sponsor 
>> draft-wkumari-dhc-capport 
>> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-dhc-capport-07). what
>> I'm looking for feeback on right now is feedback from potential 
>> implementors, either of client implementations of captive portal 
>> detection or captive portals as to:
>> 
>> * Whether or not this represents a reasonable optimization,
>> 
>> * Have we gotten the security considerations right?
>> 
>> * Would you use it if there was general consensus to the approach.
> 
> I haven't seen any responses to this.  I don't expect you'll see any
> "we would use this responses," and you shouldn't predicate this work
> on seeing any.   I think the idea is fine, although I think the
> requirement that the URI use an address literal is unnecessary.   If
> the implementor wants to do that, they can, or they can just only
> answer DNS queries for the local domain until the user authenticates.
> They'd have to do that to support the redirect anyway.
> 
> I think the document has way too much explanatory text.   It's good
> that it's there for now so that people can understand the problem
> that this draft purports to solve, but it should not be in the final
> version.   Just explain how to use DHCP and ND to send this option (I
> think supporting it in ND is worthwhile, because DHCP isn't really
> very useful in an IPv6 hotspot environment).
> 
> It would be nice to talk about ways to authenticate this, e.g. PKI or
> DNSSEC certs.
> 
> I think you should run it by some people with HTTP fu to make sure
> that you haven't missed any obvious gaps, and of course run it by
> somebody with HTTP security fu to make sure there aren't any security
> flaws that need to be addressed.
> 
> I would not object to you AD-sponsoring this.   It's not in-charter
> for DHC, nor for 6man.   You should get it reviewed in both places,
> not just in DHC.

Yeah this is inline with my assumptions, thank you.

> You may find section 5.7 of RFC 7227 useful: it would be good to make
> sure that your use of the DHCP URI option format meshes with what RFC
> 7227 does.   I didn't notice a problem, but didn't look all that
> carefully.
> 
> 


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