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

"Eddy, Wesley M. (GRC-MS00)[ASRC AEROSPACE CORP]" <wesley.m.eddy@nasa.gov> Fri, 05 March 2010 19:32 UTC

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From: "Eddy, Wesley M. (GRC-MS00)[ASRC AEROSPACE CORP]" <wesley.m.eddy@nasa.gov>
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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:32:27 -0600
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Subject: Re: [tcpm] Auth Option obsoleting MD5 Option in IANA registry
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Fernando Gont [mailto:fernando@gont.com.ar]
>Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 2:28 PM
>To: Eddy, Wesley M. (GRC-MS00)[ASRC AEROSPACE CORP]
>Cc: tcpm@ietf.org
>Subject: Re: [tcpm] Auth Option obsoleting MD5 Option in IANA registry
>
>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.

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Wes Eddy
MTI Systems