Document:  draft-krovetz-umac-07.txt 
Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern [joel@stevecrocker.com]
Review Date:  Sunday 11/20/2005 4:13 PM CST
Telechat Date:  Thursday 12/01/2005

Summary: This individual contribution for informational RFC appears to be ready for 
publication.

The text in section 5 raised a question.  If this is intended to be read 
by folks who are not security experts, an explanation of what the algorithm 
is to be used for in lay terms would be helpful.  The text says in 
section 5.  Please note that UHASH has certain combinatoric properties 
making it suitable for Wegman-Carter message authentication.  
UHASH is not a cryptographic hash function and is not a suitable general
replacement for functions like SHA-1.   So there are clearly cases to 
use and not use this material.

minor:  I would suggest that the phrase in the introduction describing 
the absence of intellectual property claims should probably include "to date".