Re: [tsvwg] RFC 9065 on Considerations around Transport Header Confidentiality, Network Operations, and the Evolution of Internet Transport Protocols

[Colin Perkins <[e-mail]>]

Thanks, David. Hopefully the resulting document is useful to some.
Colin


> On 15 Jul 2021, at 21:12, Black, David <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Congratulations to Gorry and Colin (authors) on publication of this RFC, and many thanks to all who have contributed.  
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> Thanks, --David (document shepherd)
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>        RFC 9065
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>        Title:      Considerations around Transport Header Confidentiality, 
>                    Network Operations, and the Evolution of 
>                    Internet Transport Protocols 
>        Author:     G. Fairhurst,
>                    C. Perkins
>        Status:     Informational
>        Stream:     IETF
>        Date:       July 2021
>        Mailbox:    [e-mail],
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>        Pages:      37
>        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
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>        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tsvwg-transport-encrypt-21.txt
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>        DOI:        10.17487/RFC9065
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> To protect user data and privacy, Internet transport protocols have
> supported payload encryption and authentication for some time. Such
> encryption and authentication are now also starting to be applied to
> the transport protocol headers. This helps avoid transport protocol
> ossification by middleboxes, mitigate attacks against the transport
> protocol, and protect metadata about the communication. Current
> operational practice in some networks inspect transport header
> information within the network, but this is no longer possible when
> those transport headers are encrypted.
> 
> This document discusses the possible impact when network traffic uses
> a protocol with an encrypted transport header. It suggests issues to
> consider when designing new transport protocols or features.
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> This document is a product of the Transport Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.
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