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Re: [secdir] review of draft-ietf-isis-bfd-tlv-02

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Tue, 27 July 2010 10:49 UTC

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>...
>"The TLV defined within this document describes an addition to the IS-IS
>Hello protocol. Inappropriate use of this TLV could prevent an IS-IS
>adjacency from forming or lead to failure to detect bidirectional
>forwarding failures - each of which is a form of denial of service.
>However, a party who can manipulate the contents of this TLV is already
>in a position to create such a denial of service by disrupting IS-IS
>routing in other ways. Use of authentication by IS-IS and/or by BFD is
>not altered by this document."

I'm comfortable with that text.

Steve

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