RE: [Mip6] Comments for draft-ietf-mip6-rfc4285bis-00.txt

"Ahmad Muhanna" <amuhanna@nortel.com> Tue, 04 September 2007 09:22 UTC

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Subject: RE: [Mip6] Comments for draft-ietf-mip6-rfc4285bis-00.txt
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:21:53 -0500
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Hi Hannes,
Please see comment inline.

Regards,
Ahmad
 
> Subject: [Mip6] Comments for draft-ietf-mip6-rfc4285bis-00.txt
> 
> Re-reading draft-ietf-mip6-rfc4285bis-00.txt I noticed a 
> couple of things.
> 
> * The references are out of date
> 
> Example: draft-ietf-mip6-mn-ident-option-03.txt become RFC 
> 4283 in 2005.
> 
> * RFC 3344 is a normative reference without a reason
> 
> * More RFC 2119 language is needed. When someone reads 
> through the text then the places are pretty obvious. I could 
> list them, if someone cares.
> 
> * Replay Protection: There is no mandatory to implement 
> replay protection technique. To me it seems that only the 
> timestamp based replay protection really seems to be usable 
> when used in combination with the AAA infrastructure.

[Ahmad]
I absolutely agree here. timestamp MUST be mandated using the
authentication option mechanism since sequence number does not provide a
reliable replay protection outside dynamic IPsec.
 
> 
> Ciao
> Hannes
> 
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