Ben Campbell's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpbis-cdn-loop-01: (with COMMENT)

Ben Campbell has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-httpbis-cdn-loop-01: No Objection

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COMMENT:
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*** Substantive Comments ***

I agree with Alissa's comments, and Adam's comments about configurations that
intentionally cross a CDN more than once.

- abstract: The abstract could use some more meat. What does the new header
accomplish?

§2:
-- first paragraph: Seems like this header helps "detect" loops, rather than
"prevent" them. -- last paragraph: "To be effective, intermediaries - including
Content Delivery Networks - MUST NOT remove this header field,"

Does that put normative requirements on things that do not implement the spec?

§3, first paragraph: How can CDNs stop their customer from modifying the header?

** Editorial Comments ***

§1,
-- 4th paragraph: "loops between multiple CDNs be used as an
attack vector" Missing word(s) around "CDNs be"?
-- last paragraph: The last sentence os convoluted. Can it be broken into
simpler sentences?

Received on Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:59:03 UTC