Re: [OSPF] WG Last Call for Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3 - draft-ietf-ospf-auth-trai

"Michael Barnes" <michael_barnes@usa.net> Tue, 12 April 2011 03:33 UTC

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From: Michael Barnes <michael_barnes@usa.net>
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Subject: Re: [OSPF] WG Last Call for Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3 - draft-ietf-ospf-auth-trai
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------ Original Message ------
Received: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:43:06 PM PDT
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@occnc.com>
To: Abhay Roy <akr@cisco.com>Cc: "ospf@ietf.org" <ospf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [OSPF] WG Last Call for Supporting Authentication Trailer for
OSPFv3 - draft-ietf-ospf-auth-trailer-ospfv3-03.txt

> 
> In message <4DA329FE.4050108@cisco.com>
> Abhay Roy writes:
> >  
> > We are starting the Working Group Last Call of this revision of the
> > subject draft.
> >  
> > This drafts is intended to be a Proposed Standard. The OSPF WG last
> > call will begin today and will end at 5pm PST, April 25th, 2011.
> >  
> > Abhay/Acee
> 
> 
> It is weak with only the 32 bit sequence number.  That said, if there
> is concensus for moving forward as-is I have no objection.  It is a
> step in the right direction, though IMHO it is too small a step in the
> right direction and would not have to be revisited quite as soon if
> something more robust were proposed.
> 
> Bottom line.  Falls short of what I'd like to see but no objection.
> 
> Curtis

I agree with Curis. I'd really like to see the first version of this spec at
least have the extended sequence number as is being discussed for v2.

Regards,
Michael