Re: draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-auth-04.txt

[Abhay Roy <[e-mail]>]

Vishwas,

As the draft stands today, it doesn't venture into the security
mechanism(s). I guess we need to add something. My preference will
be to stick with IPSec even for OSPFv3 IPv4 AF (irrespective of
ipv4 or ipv6 transport).

Regards,
-Roy-

On 07/05/04-0700 at 10:41pm, Vishwas Manral writes:

> Hi Abhay,
>
> Good point, didnt know the draft was actually out(actually I
> think Sina/Michael actually started working on it togather a
> long long while back before the idea was dropped). Just curious
> would we still use IPSec or would we use the current
> authentication mechanism?
>
> To add further, we intend to add a draft to allow out of order
> sequence of packets with authentication enabled like in IPSec
> for OSPFv2 too. (IP does not guarentee inorder dilevery
> anyway/besides we can allow for packet prioritization)
>
> Thanks,
> Vishwas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mailing List [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Abhay
> Roy
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:04 AM
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> Subject: Re: draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-auth-04.txt
>
>
> On 07/05/04-0500 at 2:19pm, [e-mail] writes:
>
> > Hi Vishwas,
> >
> > Thanks for the comments.  Please see my comments inline..
> >
> > > 1. I am not sure we should have a statement which says OSPFv3
> > > is only for IPv6.
> > > "As OSPFv2 is only for IPv4 and OSPFv3 is only for IPv6,
> > > the distinction between the packets can be easily made by
> > > IP version. "
> >
> > Do you have a replacement statement that you would prefer ?
> > As the IP protocol type value for OSPF and OSPFv3 is same,
> > we have to depend upon the IP version to separate OSPF and
> > OSPFv3 packets.
>
> Just FYI, we can run OSPFv3 using IPv4 transport (see section 9 of
> draft-mirtorabi-ospfv3-af-alt-01.txt). In which case the demux
> will be based on OSPF protocol version.
>
> Regards,
> -Roy-
>