Re: [Int-area] Middleboxes to aid the deployment of MPTCP

[Olivier Bonaventure <[e-mail]>]

On 19/07/17 18:32, Joe Touch wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/19/2017 12:41 AM, Olivier Bonaventure wrote:
>>> - IMO, TCP always needs to be able to fall back (which should be true 
>>> now)
>>
>> This is not a concern with the proposed design 
> Prove that is true if/when TCP-AO is enabled.

I don't think that TCP-AO is a use case for the proposed converters. If 
an application requests TCP-AO, then it indicates that it expects 
authentication until the server. I do not see a benefit of having 
authentication on a subset of the path.


Olivier

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