Re: [tcpm] New Version Notification for draft-touch-tcpm-tcp-edo-01.txt

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Fri, 30 May 2014 21:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] New Version Notification for draft-touch-tcpm-tcp-edo-01.txt
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Hi, Oliver,

On 5/30/2014 10:53 AM, Olivier Bonaventure wrote:
...
> Let me make two rough proposals that could be worth being explored or at
> least documented.
>
> 1. The TCP option space is limited, but not the IPv6 destination options
> in the IPv6 header.

IP option space would not be protected by TCP-AO, and likely not by 
whatever the TCPUSEC WG creates (e.g.,my proposal is here:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-touch-tcp-ao-encrypt-01)

Additionally, DPI, NAT processing, etc. are all impacted by IPv6 
options, so they're generally discouraged AFAIR.

Joe