Re: [tcpm] status of TCP-MD5 after TCP-AO publication

Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> Tue, 04 August 2009 15:56 UTC

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On 4 aug 2009, at 1:26, Ron Bonica wrote:

> The HISTORIC nomenclature doesn't mean that there is no longer an
> installed base. It just means that something more recent is available.

I still think it's premature to change the status of RFC 2385 before a  
replacement is widely available operationally.

And yes, that can take a decade, see 32-bit AS numbers.

Iljitsch