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Re: About AH (was Re: [Errata Held for Document Update] RFC8200 (5933))

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Tue, 03 March 2020 21:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: About AH (was Re: [Errata Held for Document Update] RFC8200 (5933))
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Brian E Carpenter wrote on 03/03/2020 21:13:
> Exactly. Why it isn't Historic is a mystery to me, but out of scope for these WGs.

it's been suggested several times on ipsec@, but the idea lacked 
consensus to move forward - the general take was that header integrity 
is still occasionally important. As an observation, SRv6 may be one of 
those situations.

Nick

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