Re: New Version Notification for draft-mahesh-bfd-authentication-01.txt

[Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]>]

Mahesh,

On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 01:54:19PM -0700, Mahesh Jethanandani wrote:
> > A place where I think the document needs to be more proscriptive is about
> > *when* you use the more aggressive crypto.  As I was working through the
> > possible modes, it almost seems as if anything that is intended to alter the
> > BFD Control packet prior to the Authentication section is a good idea.
> 
> That is also correct. Would it help to state exactly the state transitions that will be covered by authentication?

I think this is a requirement.

> There is a question of keys that are being used for authentication and how often they are rolled over. But that is out-of-band and was (supposed to be) covered by KARP WG, and therefore out of scope of this draft.

This required the use of the crypto extensions I-D anyway.

> > What's your intention for the document?  Time to ask for adoption?
> 
> Yes, we would like a call for WG adoption of the draft. I can post an updated draft.

My suggestion will be to update the Working Group during this upcoming
session in Yokohama.  We can poll for adoption after that?

-- Jeff