Draft: draft-ietf-sipping-policy-package-01 Reviewer: Shida Schubert Review Date: 28 Aug 2006 Review Deadline: 25 Aug 2006 Status: Initial review Summary: This draft is on the right track but has open issues, described in the review. I only have some technical concerns: Section 3.6/3.9 May be it belongs in the framework document but there is no normative behavior in neither of documents for UAC or UAS when policy server either returns an error upon Subscription or when Notification does not arrive within reasonable time frame. Section 3.7 -1st paragraph, 2nd sentence: Because remote policy server may be contacted, the techniques listed in the draft might not suffice the authentication/authorization. Mentioning of P-A-ID/AIB/SIP-Identity as a potential way to authenticate a client(subscriber) may be good. Section 4 All the security consideration focuses on UA but with policy server possibly providing policy information of the domain to an outside entity, there is a security consideration surrounding the domain's security as well. If no proper security is set for providing policy information to an entity outside of the domain, malicious user can gain access on potential attacking point such as IP/port to use etc. Currently all you need is policy server's URI to gain access to this, as there is no correlation between the request that caused 488 and the SUBSCRIBE request.