[bess] Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-bess-fat-pw-bgp-03: (with COMMENT)

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Thu, 22 February 2018 04:22 UTC

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Subject: [bess] Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-bess-fat-pw-bgp-03: (with COMMENT)
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Eric Rescorla has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-bess-fat-pw-bgp-03: No Objection

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Is there a race condition here when an endpoint changes its R bit? Like it will
temporarily get packets in the wrong state, right? Problem?

I agree with Ben about the security considerations section. One or two more
sentence should suffice.