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Re: Deprecation of AH header from the IPSEC tool kit

Dan Harkins <dharkins@cips.nokia.com> Thu, 15 June 2000 15:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: Deprecation of AH header from the IPSEC tool kit
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:44:19 -0700
From: Dan Harkins <dharkins@cips.nokia.com>
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:44:12 PDT you wrote
> 
> note that draft-iab-wirelessws-00.txt indicates that
> there was resistance to acceptance of IPv6 in
> "any" of 3G standards efforts (section 3.10).
> it also notes that "there was considerable
> aversion to use of IPsec and IKE protocols
> due to perceived overhead and delay."

It was this same perception that caused many wheels to be
reinvented for WAP. The result is no better, and in some ways
worse, than TCP/IP. WIPSec and WIKE will follow this tradition.

  Dan.

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