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

Mark Allman <mallman@icir.org> Tue, 09 March 2010 17:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] Auth Option obsoleting MD5 Option in IANA registry
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> 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 :).

Seems like a reasonable plan to me.

allman