Re: [tcpm] TCP Auth experimental Linux patches

Adam,

I think it's fantastic that you're working on an implementation of extended tcp auth.  However, I fear your efforts may be misdirected. The reason is that the settled-down spec in draft-bonica, not the one in the tcpm working group draft.  Draft-bonica is implemented, deployed and interops between Alcatel, Cisco and Juniper routers.  Implementing draft-bonica, and testing against the router implementations would be the right direction to pursue.

The reason the traffic on the mailing list has died down it that the tcp-ao draft is stillborn.  It adds nothing the the deployed implementation, except incompatibility on the wire. 

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: tcpm-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of Adam Langley
Sent: Fri 7/18/2008 4:40 PM
To: tcpm@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [tcpm] TCP Auth experimental Linux patches

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org> wrote:
> Since the TCP auth is settling down, I thought that I would try
> implementing it to see if any fell out.

I'm sorry, that sentence should be taken out and shot. Please let me try again:

"Since the TCP auth spec is settling down, I thought that I would try
implementing it to see if anything fell out."

Thanks,

-- 
Adam Langley agl@imperialviolet.org http://www.imperialviolet.org
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