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Minutes of GRIP working group meeting



Enclosed are the minutes of the GRIP working group meeting. Thanks to
Tristan for taking the notes and suggesting that we be first instead of
last this time!

Barbara

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  GRIP WG meeting - Minneapolis
  Minutes recorded by: Tristan Debeaupuis
  15th, March 1999

  1.  Agenda
  ----------

  15:30-15:40     Review Agenda
  15:40-16:00     Review Expectations for ISP-ISP Security Coordination
  16:00-16:20     Review Consumer Checklist for ISPs
  16:20-16:40     Site Security Handbook Addendum for ISPs
  16:40-17:00     Review Security Expectations for Product Vendors
  17:00-17:15     Open Discussion; Document Authors
  17:15-17:30     Next Steps

  After discussion, the new agenda was:

  Modified :
  15:30-15:40     Review Agenda
  16:00-16:20     Review Consumer Checklist for ISPs
  15:40-16:00     Review Expectations for ISP-ISP Security Coordination
  16:40-17:00     Review Security Expectations for Product Vendors
  17:00-17:15     Open Discussion; Document Authors
  17:15-17:30     Next Steps

  2.  Review Consumer Checklist for ISPs
  --------------------------------------

  There was discussion about the format we should use for this 
  document. There was concern that the existing paragraph style
  wasn't what the working group had in mind. 

  Tony Hansen (ATT) presented several alternatives for making the
  document more similar to a checklist. After discussion, there was
  there a consensus that we will begin each section with a list of
  questions that the consumer would ask of their ISP candidate. The
  following section would expand on the importance and rationale for
  asking the questions. In addition to the main document text, we
  will also list the complete list of questions as an appendix.  
  IESG.  Concern was raise by the AD that we keep the appendix 
  consistent with the rest of the document. Therefore, we won't create
  the appendix until after we have completed the document, just before
  submission to the IESG.

  The rest of discussion on this document focused on the content
  of the sections. The following is a summary of those discussions.

  Comments on the document :

  ·  About the title : The title "Security Expectations for Internet
     Service Provider Consumers" has to be modified for "Security
     Checklist for Internet Service Provider Consumers".

     The abstract will also be modified to reflect this change.

  ·  Section 2.1 : The suggestion was made to use "incident handling"
     instead of just incident reporting or response.

  ·  Section 2.2 : "Assistance with inbound security incident" included
     suggestion that the ISP inform users of incidents that were
     targeted at other customers. This was decided to be inappropriate.
     This section will be rewritten to cover questions designed to
     solicit information about how the ISP will respond to attacks on
     the consumer. For example: What help will you get from ISP ?  
     What are you going to be told if the ISP notices that someone 
     is attacking you ?

  ·  Section 2.3 : This section will be revised to cover a set of 
     questions  "What sort of security information the
     ISP will make available to you ?"

  ·  Section 2.4 : Comments made on the list will be incorporated into
     this section by the document editor.

  ·  Section 2.5 : To make it easier to understand, we will provide
     some examples of what we mean by "secure channels" e.g., Secure Web,
     Secure Email, telephone, fax, ... 

  ·  Section 3 : This section will simply ask if the ISP has a security
     policy and what is in it.

  ·  Section 3.2 : The first sentence will be rewritten.

  ·  Section 3.4 : Content will include questions covering whether the
     policy is public and where it is published.

  ·  Section 4 : It was decided that this section doesn't belong
     in this document and it will be removed.

  ·  Section 5 and 6 : Discussion will occur on the mailing list.


  3.  Review Security Expectations for ISPs
  --------------------------------------


  ·  Section 2.1 : Comments from the mailing list will be integrated

  ·  Section 2.3 : This section has to be synchronised with the previous
     document (Security Checklist for Internet Service Provider
     Consumers), especially the last sentence.

  ·  Sections 2.4 and 2.5 should be removed from this document. The
     subject of how the ISP deals with security incident that involve
     them will be added.

  ·  Section 2.3 : Include recommendation to notify appropriate people
     when a new vulnerability is discovered.

  ·  Section 2.5 : Contacts

  ·  Section 3 : The language needs to be edited so that it no longer
     reads as if there is a contracts AUP that guides everything. 

  ·  Section 4 : A reference to the site security handbook RFC will
     be added.

  ·  Section 4.1, 4.2 : Some duplications will be removed.

  ·  Section 4.1 : Modify to read "ISP should 'SWIP' or equivalent."

  ·  Section 4.2 : A transition sentence is needed to explain that 
     the advice given is not going to prevent bogus announcement.

  ·  Section 4.3 and 4.4 are already in RFC 2265, so the major portions
     of text will be removed and a reference to 2265 will be 
     highlighted.

  ·  Section 4.6 : there is a proposal to change default way to accept
     directed broadcast to the opposite. Must add the reference to
     "Changing the Default for Directed Broadcasts in Routers", D.
     Senie, 02/22/1999, draft-senie-directed-broadcast-02.txt.

  ·  Section 5 : This section will be removed from this document and
     included in the SSH addendum document.


  4.  Site Security Handbook Addendum for ISPs
      ----------------------------------------

      We didn't have a draft prepared in time for this IETF. Tristan
      volunteered to be the document editor.

  5.  Security Expectations for Technology Vendors
      --------------------------------------------

      We ran out of time. The draft will be submitted to I-Ds and
      discussed on the list.

  6.  Next Steps
      ----------

      New drafts for each document will be ready by April 15, 1999.
      The goal of the working group is to complete all documents by
      the Oslo IETF meeting.