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Re: [MEXT] [tsv-dir] tsv-dir review of draft-ietf-mext-nemo-v4traversal-06.txt

Colin Perkins <csp@csperkins.org> Mon, 01 December 2008 12:28 UTC

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On 1 Dec 2008, at 11:06, Magnus Westerlund wrote:
> Hesham Soliman skrev:
>> Thanks Colin,
>>
>> I agree with your rationale but I wonder if we need to support  
>> every broken device out there. In any case, if we have to, I  
>> prefer to require encryption than to add the XORED address option.  
>> I'd like to hear what people in MEXT think about this, comments  
>> from MEXT?
>
> I don't think we should go to far to correct this bug in
> implementations. My understanding is that this have been observed  
> but is
> not a common behavior as these generic ALGs do break things  
> randomly and
> horribly. I would only do something about if it has no minimal  
> impact on
> the specification and any deployed implementations. Otherwise the  
> fix is
> likely to cause more grief than the few devices that are broken.


Right - the issue should be documented, and if there is a trivial fix  
it should be recommended, but this isn't a big issue.

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Colin Perkins
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