Protocol Action: 'Relaxed Packet Counter Verification for Babel MAC Authentication' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-babel-mac-relaxed-05.txt)

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Fri, 23 June 2023 16:42 UTC

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The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Relaxed Packet Counter Verification for Babel MAC Authentication'
  (draft-ietf-babel-mac-relaxed-05.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Babel routing protocol Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Jim Guichard, Andrew Alston and John Scudder.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-babel-mac-relaxed/




Technical Summary

   This document relaxes packet verification rules defined in the Babel
   MAC Authentication protocol in order to make it more robust in the
   presence of packet reordering.

Working Group Summary

    There is solid support for this draft in the WG.

Document Quality

  There are two independent implementations, babeld and BIRD. See
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/babel/W5k5WNWp4A6KuOUmmrlvCPY-wr4/

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Donald E. Eastlake 3rd. 
   The Responsible Area Director is Andrew Alston.