> As said, a nice idea. However, the case of ignoring HAO
> is not true; before PKI was not considered globally scalable
> it was possible to say we can always use IPsec to protect
> even the HAO, which is an immutable dst.opt.

Jari,

No version of draft-ietf-mobileip-ipv6-nn.txt has required that the HAOpt
be protected in all cases - the requirement has only been to protect
it (automatically) when the packet also containts a BU option.
Thus this issue has nothing to global PKI or not - IMHO it was
a poor understanding, partly by myself as a WG co-chair at the time,
of the type of attacks that have since become more common and how the
HAOpt could be used to facilitate such attacks.

  Erik

> Hence, once a "weak authentication" method is chosen it
> is again possible to always protect HAO (as well as even a
> nicer tunneling header). We still need a MAC field for that and
> for this there is an easy way. To conclude, dst.hdr is in RFC,
> the new proposal an individual draft so I'd say it could be
> something to consider for a second generation of Mobile IPv6,
> perhaps.
> 
> >             Mike
> 
> BR,
> 
> -Jari
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