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Re: [IPsec] Working Group Last Call: draft-ietf-ipsecme-esp-ah-reqts

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Wed, 26 February 2014 15:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [IPsec] Working Group Last Call: draft-ietf-ipsecme-esp-ah-reqts
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Paul,

>> On Feb 25, 2014, at 8:48 PM, Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, this is to start a 2-week working group last call on the revised 
>> Algorithm Implementation Requirements
>> document, ending March 11. The draft is at: 
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipsecme-esp-ah-reqts-01. We
>> should have last called the draft a while ago, and I apologize for 
>> the delay.
>
> Section 2.2:
>
> It lists NULL ESP as a MUST. Wasn't this a MUST a leftover from the old
> crypto export restrictions? While I think NULL ESP is a good debugging
> tool, and a good replacement for AH in general, I don't think this is
> really a MUST item (unless you would actually advise people to migrate
> from AH to ESP NULL, in which case I'll cheer on this MUST)
I think we do want folks to migrate from AH to ESP/NULL. That's why we
made support for AH a MAY a while ago.

Steve

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