Subject: [mpls] draft-nslag-mpls-deprecate-md5

From: "Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE/Stuttgart)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:03:54 +0000

I realized that draft-nslag-mpls-deprecate-md5 is on the MPLS agenda.

Section 3 includes the following wording:

  Note: The authors are not experts on this part of the stack, but it
   seems that TCP security negotiation is still work in progress.  If we
   are wrong, then we need to include a requirement that such
   negotiation is also required.  In the absence of a negotiation
   protocol, however, we need to leave this as a configuration process
   until such time as the negotiation protocol work is complete.  On
   completion of a suitable negotiation protocol we need to issue a
   further update requiring its use.

This section is relatively vague. If additions to the TCP-AO protocol were needed, please feel free to reach out to the TCPM working group.

Actually, TCPM has met yesterday. If there was some requirements on the TCP-AO protocol, we could have discussed this yesterday.

Thanks

Michael (TCPM co-chair)