Re: Request to review "Security enhancments for BFD packet's sequence number"

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Wed, 22 March 2017 18:34 UTC

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From: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org>
To: Mahesh Jethanandani <mjethanandani@gmail.com>
Cc: Sonal Agarwal <sagarwal12@gmail.com>, rtg-bfd@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Request to review "Security enhancments for BFD packet's sequence number"
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:12:51PM -0800, Mahesh Jethanandani wrote:
> What Sonal means to ask if for folks to review the draft.
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sonal-bfd-secure-sequence-numbers-00.txt
> 
> The abstract of which reads:
> 
>      This document describes a security enhancements for the BFD packet's sequence number.

Thanks for posting the draft.  I'm looking forward to seeing the discussion
on this proposal at the upcoming BFD session.

Having taken a quick look at the draft, I'm hoping to see the presentation
cover some further details about the initial sequence number logic in
particular.

-- Jeff