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1.1. <del> MLS is designed to operate in the context described in I-D.ietf-mls- architecture.  In particular, we assume that the following services are provided: An Authentication Service (AS) that enables group members to authenticate the credentials presented by other group members. A Delivery Service (DS) that routes MLS messages among the participants in the protocol.  The following types of delivery are typically required (where KeyPackage, Proposal, Commit, and Welcome are defined below): Pre-publication of KeyPackage objects for clients Broadcast delivery of Proposal and Commit messages to members of a group Unicast delivery of Welcome messages to new members of a group Sequencing of Commit messages (see sequencing) The DS and AS may also apply additional policies to MLS operations to obtain additional security properties.  For example, MLS enables any participant to add or remove members of a group; a DS could enforce a policy that only certain members are allowed to perform these operations.  MLS authenticates all members of a group; a DS could help ensure that only clients with certain types of credential are admitted.  MLS provides no inherent protection against denial of service; A DS could also enforce rate limits in order to mitigate these risks. 1.2. </del> RFC EDITOR PLEASE DELETE THIS SECTION. draft-15 3.  The core functionality of MLS is continuous group authenticated key exchange (AKE).  As with other authenticated key exchange protocols (such as TLS), the participants in the protocol agree on a common secret value, and each participant can verify the identity of the <del> other participants.  MLS provides group AKE in the sense that there can be more than two participants in the protocol, and continuous group AKE in the sense that the set of participants in the protocol can change over time. </del>  The core organizing principles of MLS are _groups_ and _epochs_.  A group represents a logical collection of clients that share a common The creator of an MLS group creates the group's first epoch unilaterally, with no protocol interactions.  Thereafter, the members of the group advance their shared cryptographic state from one epoch <del> to another by exchanging MLS messages: </del>  A _KeyPackage_ object describes a client's capabilities and provides keys that can be used to add the client to a group. KeyPackage and Welcome messages are used to initiate a group or introduce new members, so they are exchanged between group members <del> and clients not yet in the group. </del>  Proposal and Commit messages are sent from one member of a group to the others.  MLS provides a common framing layer for sending messages 16.10.  It is possible for a malicious member of a group to "fragment" the group by crafting an invalid UpdatePath.  Recall that an UpdatePath encrypts a sequence of path secrets to different subtrees of the

Reviewer comments:
This removes the following graf: The DS and AS may also apply additional policies to MLS operations to obtain additional security properties. For example, MLS enables any participant to add or remove members of a group; a DS could enforce a policy that only certain members are allowed to perform these operations. MLS authenticates all members of a group; a DS could help ensure that only clients with certain types of credential are admitted. MLS provides no inherent protection against denial of service; A DS could also enforce rate limits in order to mitigate these risks. My sense is this belongs in Security Considerations, not here.
This looks good to me. Please do move the removed paragraph to the security considerations, either here or in .

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1.1.  RFC EDITOR PLEASE DELETE THIS SECTION. draft-15 3. <ins> MLS is designed to operate in the context described in I-D.ietf-mls- architecture.  In particular, we assume that the following services are provided: An Authentication Service (AS) that enables group members to authenticate the credentials presented by other group members. A Delivery Service (DS) that routes MLS messages among the participants in the protocol. MLS assumes a trusted AS but a largely untrusted DS. authentication- service-compromise describes the impact of compromise or misbehavior of an AS.  MLS is designed to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the group data even in the face of a compromised DS; in general, the DS is just expected to reliably deliver messages. delivery-service-compromise describes the impact of compromise or misbehavior of a DS. </ins> The core functionality of MLS is continuous group authenticated key exchange (AKE).  As with other authenticated key exchange protocols (such as TLS), the participants in the protocol agree on a common secret value, and each participant can verify the identity of the  <ins> other participants.  That secret can then be used to protect messages sent from one participant in the group to the other participants using the MLS framing layer or can be exported for use with other protocols.  MLS provides group AKE in the sense that there can be more than two participants in the protocol, and continuous group AKE in the sense that the set of participants in the protocol can change over time. </ins> The core organizing principles of MLS are _groups_ and _epochs_.  A group represents a logical collection of clients that share a common The creator of an MLS group creates the group's first epoch unilaterally, with no protocol interactions.  Thereafter, the members of the group advance their shared cryptographic state from one epoch  <ins> to another by exchanging MLS messages. </ins> A _KeyPackage_ object describes a client's capabilities and provides keys that can be used to add the client to a group. KeyPackage and Welcome messages are used to initiate a group or introduce new members, so they are exchanged between group members  <ins> and clients not yet in the group.  A client publishes a KeyPackage via the DS, thus enabling other clients to add it to groups.  When a group member wants to add a new member to a group it uses the new member's KeyPackage to add the new member to the group and construct a Welcome message with which the new member can initialize its local state. </ins> Proposal and Commit messages are sent from one member of a group to the others.  MLS provides a common framing layer for sending messages 16.10. <ins> The DS and AS may also apply additional policies to MLS operations to obtain additional security properties.  For example, MLS enables any participant to add or remove members of a group; a DS could enforce a policy that only certain members are allowed to perform these operations.  MLS authenticates all members of a group; a DS could help ensure that only clients with certain types of credential are admitted.  MLS provides no inherent protection against denial of service; A DS could also enforce rate limits in order to mitigate these risks. 16.11. </ins> It is possible for a malicious member of a group to "fragment" the group by crafting an invalid UpdatePath.  Recall that an UpdatePath encrypts a sequence of path secrets to different subtrees of the