Subject: Re: Error in text on interim AH header

From: "Rosen, Brian" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:49:57 -0400

It got through the IESG.  This is because IPSEC is mandatory for
IPv6.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Thomas [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 4:46 PM
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Error in text on interim AH header
>
>
> Er, this isn't very ipv6 friendly.
>
>          Mike
>
> Rosen, Brian writes:
>  > There is an error in the text in section 10.2 Interim AH scheme
>  > in the sentence:
>  >    ...........To retain the same functionality, the ICV calculation
>  >    should be performed across the entire transaction prepended by a
>  >    synthesized IP header consisting of a 32 bit source IP
> address, a 32
>  >    bit destination address and a 16 bit UDP destination
> port encoded as
>  >    10 hex digits.
>  >
>  > The error is "10 hex digits".  It should be 20 hex digits,
>  > representing 10 bytes (4 source, 4 dest, 2 port).
>  >
>  > Brian
>  >
>