Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead
Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi> Wed, 11 November 2009 23:56 UTC
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From: Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead
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Scott C Moonen writes: > Jack, I'm not sure it's clear yet whether WESP will be widely adopted. > There's disagreement between end-node and middle-node folks as to whether > WESP or heuristics are the best approach for inspection of ESP-NULL > traffic. I think that end-node vendors will be very reluctant to adopt > WESP widely until there is broad customer demand for it, and I'm not sure > that this demand will ever materialize. I agree on that... > This is all my personal opinion, of course. But it seems to me that > heuristics will have to be adopted by competitive middle-node vendors, and > therefore (barring any extensions to WESP that make it attractive for > other reasons) the use of heuristics will probably always be more > widespread and will dampen the demand for WESP. Additionally, ESP-NULL > itself has rather narrow applicability in an environment where end-to-end > encryption is increasingly common, which further limits the cases where > there will be an absolute need for WESP. Furthermore, there will always > be valid reasons to use AH (reduced overhead compared to WESP). And wider protection, i.e. IP addresses and options... > For reasons like these, I believe it's premature to call for deprecation > of AH and even more premature to start preferring WESP to ESP. Agree on that too. > What status will the WESP RFC have? Experimental, informational, > standards track, etc.? It is aimed for proposed standard, altough I would be happier if would be aimed for experimental. -- kivinen@iki.fi
- [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Jack Kohn
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Stephen Kent
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Scott C Moonen
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Tero Kivinen
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Bhatia, Manav (Manav)
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Bhatia, Manav (Manav)
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Stephen Kent
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Merike Kaeo
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Bhatia, Manav (Manav)
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Stephen Kent
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Bhatia, Manav (Manav)
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Jack Kohn
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Daniel Migault
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Jack Kohn
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Steven Bellovin
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Bhatia, Manav (Manav)
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Richard Graveman
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Stephen Kent
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Venkatesh Sriram
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Bhatia, Manav (Manav)
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Bhatia, Manav (Manav)
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Stephen Kent
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Steven Bellovin
- [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Tero Kivinen
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Bhatia, Manav (Manav)
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Tero Kivinen
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Bhatia, Manav (Manav)
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Stephen Kent
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Stephen Kent
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Dan McDonald
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Gregory Lebovitz
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Gregory Lebovitz
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Jack Kohn
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Stephen Kent
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Jack Kohn
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Stephen Kent
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Jack Kohn
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Stephen Kent
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Jack Kohn
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Daniel Migault
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Tero Kivinen
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Tero Kivinen
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Stephen Kent
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Stephen Kent
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Jack Kohn
- Re: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead Stephen Kent