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IETF Last Call Review of draft-ietf-pim-ipv6-zeroconf-assignment-12
review-ietf-pim-ipv6-zeroconf-assignment-12-secdir-lc-turner-2026-10-06-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-pim-ipv6-zeroconf-assignment
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 13)
Type IETF Last Call Review
Team Security Area Directorate (secdir)
Deadline 2026-10-06
Requested 2026-09-22
Authors Nathan Karstens , Dino Farinacci , Mike McBride
I-D last updated 2026-10-08 (Latest revision 2026-10-08)
Completed reviews Dnsdir Early review of -07 by Geoff Huston (diff)
Intdir Early review of -07 by Chris Box (diff)
Rtgdir Early review of -07 by Toerless Eckert (diff)
Dnsdir IETF Last Call review of -12 by Geoff Huston (diff)
Genart IETF Last Call review of -12 by Peter E. Yee (diff)
Secdir IETF Last Call review of -12 by Sean Turner (diff)
Artart IETF Last Call review of -12 by Arnt Gulbrandsen (diff)
Tsvart IETF Last Call review of -12 by Tommy Pauly (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Sean Turner
State Completed
Request IETF Last Call review on draft-ietf-pim-ipv6-zeroconf-assignment by Security Area Directorate Assigned
Posted at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/secdir/rrr3umQJmJbQcqOS6H6w60vFDdg
Reviewed revision 12 (document currently at 13)
Result Has nits
Completed 2026-10-06
review-ietf-pim-ipv6-zeroconf-assignment-12-secdir-lc-turner-2026-10-06-00
Hi! I read this I-D and RFCs 10019 and 6762. I suspect this is probably a minor
thing, but thought I'd bring it up.

If I am reading RFC 6762 properly, it says that if there's antagonist hosts
then use IPsec or DNSSEC to distinguish from trusted and untrusted
participants. The security considerations in this specification, which do refer
to mDNS by name but don't include the normal "the security considerations of
mDNS apply here as well", seem to kind of down play the mDNS specification's
security considerations by saying:

  In most networks,
  the probability of a collision is already so low that this does not
  result in a practical way to attack the network.

Is the use of mDNS here somehow different than in the base specification as to
make it sound like you're saying "eh don't bother with IPsec or DNSSEC" here?