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RE: draft-ietf-opsec--infrastructure-security-00.txt



Thanks for the pointers on the references - we will indeed update them for the next revision of the draft.
 
My feeling is that the operator community views things like 2267 as a goal to get to, and uses the fact that its a BCP as a lever to get their management and their vendors to work towards enabling it.
 
We've been very selective in trying to limit the advice here to what's actually behind done in a (majority?) of operators networks.  The exception might be the IPv6 section - if anything I'd be in favor of reducing the amount of content there to make sure it fits with the practical tone of the rest of the document.
 
I pretty much view draft-ietf-opsec-current-practice-07.txt as a broad survey that operators can use to get an understanding of all of their options for practical security measures.  *-infrastructure-security-00.txt is a sort of 'best of' where we hammer home a baseline of what they should be doing.  Thoughts?
 
-Darrel


From: George Jones [mailto:eludom@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 11:25 AM
To: Ross Callon
Cc: opsec@ops.ietf.org; Darrel Lewis (darlewis); pcain@coopercain.com
Subject: Re: draft-ietf-opsec--infrastructure-security-00.txt

I guess my main question/comment is, is whats in this draft
(draft-ietf-opsec-infrastructure-security-00.txt) actual, current
practice or is it a good set of "shoulds" ?  2267 (ingress filtering)
is a good idea, but I think it's still far from a universal practice.

On the other hand, I think draft-ietf-opsec-current-practices-07.txt
was the result of an extensive survey of *actual* *current* *practices*
of operators.  

If I had to vote between the two, I'd vote for the latter being BCP....but
both are fine docs.

One small comment on *-infrastrucure-security-00.txt, you need to add
references for all your citatoins (e.g. 2267, 3704 are cited but not listed
in the references).   xml2rfc will catch stuff like this for you.

---George Jones