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

Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Fri, 05 March 2010 20:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] Auth Option obsoleting MD5 Option in IANA registry
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Eddy, Wesley M. (GRC-MS00)[ASRC AEROSPACE CORP] wrote:

>>> 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 :).
>> Question: this does not mean that the option will be reassigned in the
>> short term for some other purpose, right?
> 
> Correct; the proposal is simply to add a note saying
> that TCP MD5 has been obsoleted, not to return Kind=19
> to the pool of unassigned values.

Then, +1 :-)

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Fernando Gont
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