[saag] Fwd: Last Call: <draft-ietf-sfc-proof-of-transit-08.txt> (Proof of Transit) to Experimental RFC

The proof-of-transit techniques in this document might be interesting to
readers here.

-Ben

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 10:19:23AM -0700, The IESG wrote:
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> The IESG has received a request from the Service Function Chaining WG (sfc)
> to consider the following document: - 'Proof of Transit'
>   <draft-ietf-sfc-proof-of-transit-08.txt> as Experimental RFC
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> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final
> comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
> last-call@ietf.org mailing lists by 2021-09-28. Exceptionally, comments may
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> Abstract
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>    Several technologies such as Traffic Engineering (TE), Service
>    Function Chaining (SFC), and policy based routing are used to steer
>    traffic through a specific, user-defined path.  This document defines
>    mechanisms to securely prove that traffic transited a defined path.
>    These mechanisms allow to securely verify whether, within a given
>    path, all packets traversed all the nodes that they are supposed to
>    visit.  This document specifies a data model to enable these
>    mechanisms using YANG.
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> The file can be obtained via
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sfc-proof-of-transit/
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> The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D:
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>    https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2937/
>    https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/3751/
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