Re: [Anima] Roman Danyliw's Discuss on draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane-27: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Sun, 16 August 2020 04:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Anima] Roman Danyliw's Discuss on draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane-27: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 01:22:22AM +0000, Roman Danyliw wrote:
> > 
> > > ** Section 6.11.1.1.2.  A mechanism for failed ACP detected using a
> > > secure channel protocol is noted for IPSec (with IKEv2 Dead Peer
> > > Detection).  What is the equivalent for DTLS?
> > 
> > Good question. If you know someone who could suggest an equivalent, please
> > bring her in. Given how this is a performance optimization, i don't think we
> > need to bother too much. I hope we can learn from
> > implementation/deployment experience (i only hve that for IPsec) and then
> > write update text later with such refinements.
> 
> Sorry, I too don't have citable reference.  Let's leave it as is.

DTLS heartbeats (RFC 6520) would probably be the closest thing to IKE dead
peer detection, but it's not a perfect match.
(Also, openssl removed all support for heartbeats recently-ish, even for
DTLS; I guess heartbleed left too many painful memories.)

-Ben