RFC 7166 on Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3

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        RFC 7166

        Title:      Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3 
        Author:     M. Bhatia, V. Manral, A. Lindem
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       March 2014
        Mailbox:    manav.bhatia@alcatel-lucent.com, 
                    vishwas@ionosnetworks.com, 
                    acee.lindem@ericsson.com
        Pages:      23
        Characters: 49533
        Obsoletes:  RFC 6506

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ospf-rfc6506bis-05.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7166.txt

Currently, OSPF for IPv6 (OSPFv3) uses IPsec as the only mechanism
for authenticating protocol packets.  This behavior is different from
authentication mechanisms present in other routing protocols (OSPFv2,
Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS), RIP, and Routing
Information Protocol Next Generation (RIPng)).  In some environments,
it has been found that IPsec is difficult to configure and maintain
and thus cannot be used.  This document defines an alternative
mechanism to authenticate OSPFv3 protocol packets so that OSPFv3 does
not depend only upon IPsec for authentication.

The OSPFv3 Authentication Trailer was originally defined in RFC 6506.
This document obsoletes RFC 6506 by providing a revised definition,
including clarifications and refinements of the procedures.

This document is a product of the Open Shortest Path First IGP Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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