Re: [tcpm] tcpsecure: how strong to recommend?

Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> Tue, 25 September 2007 06:07 UTC

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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:07:05 +0300
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
Subject: Re: [tcpm] tcpsecure: how strong to recommend?
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Fernando Gont wrote:
> At 02:44 p.m. 24/09/2007, Mark Allman wrote:
>> In the meeting in Chicago we took a "visual hum" and the tally looks
>> like this:
>>
>>        all SHOULDs: 4
>>        all MAYs: 3
>>        two SHOULDs and a MAY: 8
>> 
>> So, our inclination is to go with option (3) from my list above.  If you
>> think this is the wrong way to go please yell---especially if you are
>> not reflected in the 15 folks who took part in the visual hum.
>
> My inclination is for option (2) (all MAYs).
>
> FWIW, I did not attend the last IETF.

Likewise.

As a note, I do not see this as a comment on the technology or the 
modifications.  What I don't like is the concept that new TCP 
standards track documents would define what all TCP implementations 
implement.  Instead they should just define how to implement a 
particular modification if a vendor chooses to do so.  If we need to 
mandate what vendors must implement in order to claim compliance with 
'TCP', we need to update RFC 1122 or write a normative version of the 
TCP roadmap document.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

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