Re: [tcpm] Auth Option obsoleting MD5 Option in IANA registry

This makes sense to me, so I am in support of the change.
		-David Borman

On Mar 5, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Eddy, Wesley M. (GRC-MS00)[ASRC AEROSPACE CORP] wrote:

> Following IANA's review of the TCP-AO draft, it was
> noted that some entries in the TCP options registry
> have notes of being obsoleted by other options:
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/tcp-parameters/tcp-parameters.xhtml
> One example, is Kind=6, which in the "Meaning"
> column indicates that it's obsoleted by Kind=8.
> 
> It's proposed that since the TCP AO document
> obsoletes the TCP MD5 RFC, that the option assigned
> to TCP AO obsolete Kind=19, the MD5 Signature
> Option, and this would be noted in the IANA registry.
> 
> I think this should be easily agreed to by TCPM,
> since AO was created to obsolete the MD5 option,
> but if there are any objections to this, now is a
> good time to make them :).
> 
> --
> Wes Eddy
> MTI Systems
> 
> 
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