> It seems to me that the important point is that a host needs > to assert something about the strength of security it requires. > This is a property of a host, not a property of an address. > I become more and more convinced that asserting this property > via an address bit is both unnecessary (it can be done by > a header field that is equally subject to authentication) > and undesirable (overloading). > > Brian >
I fully agree. And when AH is used, the source address can also be verified, which ties the source address and security options for that host. - Rami -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
