Re: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-11.txt

IMHO, the reference updates should be done during AUTH48 without
further discussion, but making AH optional seems like a substantive
change.

Personally, I would support that change, i.e. s/MUST/MAY/.

     Brian (speaking only for myself)

Jari Arkko wrote:
> They should be updated. By the way I noticed recently
> that the RFC Editor does not necessarily do "obsoleted by"
> updates to references automatically. This stuff needs to
> be done by the authors in AUTH48. And in this particular
> case we have even text changes, as you point out.
> 
> By the way, there are also substantive changes in the
> new IPsec documents. For instance, AH support is no
> longer a MUST. I think this should be reflected in the
> node requirements document too, as that currently
> says "AH [RFC-2402] MUST be supported.".
> 
> There's probably an impact in the algorithms and key
> management sections, too...
> 
> --Jari
> 
> Dave Thaler wrote:
> 
>> The draft in the RFC-editors queue now references obsoleted (as of last
>> month) RFCs. Specifically:
>>  RFC2401 is now obsoleted by RFC4301
>>  RFC2402 is now obsoleted by RFC4302
>>  RFC2404 is now obsoleted by RFC4305
>>  RFC2406 is now obsoleted by RFC4303, RFC4305
>>  RFC2407,2408,2409 are now obsoleted by RFC4306
>>
>> Also two statements in section 8 are now obsolete as a result:
>>  "RFC-2401 is being updated by the IPsec Working Group."
>>  "RFC-2406 and RFC 2402 are being updated by the IPsec Working Group."
>>
>> Can these be updated?
>>
>> -Dave
>>
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