Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication-10.txt

["Reshad Rahman (rrahman)" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Mahesh and Jeff,

On 2020-07-20, 9:29 PM, "Rtg-bfd on behalf of Mahesh Jethanandani" <[e-mail] on behalf of [e-mail]> wrote:

    Hi Jeff,

    > On Jul 20, 2020, at 5:48 PM, Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > 
    > Mahesh,
    > 
    > While reviewing version -10, I had the following questions:
    > 
    > For the state machine changes, in the Init->Init state, we have NULL auth.
    > While this is a "boring" transition, it's also happening at a very slow part
    > of the state machine; timers should be once a second.  Is there a strong
    > argument to use NULL here?

    Not particularly. The reason to choose NULL was because of the (limited) impact it would have. But if the WG feels otherwise, I can change it to Auth.
<RR> I don't have a strong opinion on this yet. But if we change INIT->INIT to be Auth, we should be consistent and change Down->Down to Auth too?

Regards,
Reshad.

    > 
    > In section 3:
    > :   Sequence Number: The sequence number for this packet.  Implementation
    > :   may use sequence numbers (bfd.XmitAuthSeq) as defined in BFD
    > :   [RFC5880], or secure sequence numbers as defined in Secure BFD
    > :   Sequence Numbers [I-D.ietf-bfd-secure-sequence-numbers].
    > 
    > In the core BFD spec, it distinguishes between occasional and meticulous
    > modes and uses different code points to determine what you do.  I suspect
    > your intent is that we always use meticulous mode here?

    Yes, the intent was meticulous. I can clarify that.

    > 
    > -- Jeff
    > 
    > 
    > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 01:56:14PM -0700, Mahesh Jethanandani wrote:
    >>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
    >>> This draft is a work item of the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection WG of the IETF.
    >>> 
    >>>       Title           : Optimizing BFD Authentication
    >>>       Authors         : Mahesh Jethanandani
    >>>                         Ashesh Mishra
    >>>                         Ankur Saxena
    >>>                         Manav Bhatia
    >>> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication-10.txt
    >>> 	Pages           : 8
    >>> 	Date            : 2020-07-13
    >>> 
    >>> Abstract:
    >>>  This document describes an optimization to BFD Authentication as
    >>>  described in Section 6.7 of BFD RFC 5880.  This document updates RFC
    >>>  5880.
    > 
    > 

    Mahesh Jethanandani
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