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Re: [secdir] Sector Review: draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions-09

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Mon, 05 January 2015 21:07 UTC

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>>> The document contains no issues from a security perspective as it is
>>> only creating LSA’s for new types of route selection metrics, time
>>> instead of network hops.
>> 
>> and the new lsas could not be used in path shortening attacks, right?
>
> this document only defines the format of the LSA’s it does
> not talk about processing by the routing engines. 

so the secdir sees no need to warn about it.  got it.  </sarcasm>

randy

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