In general, I think proxy SEND is doable, and doesn't even need any new trust roots or anything. Its a question of delegating the right to do advertisements for someone else. The protocol details are left as an exercise for the reader ;-).

However, I can see different use cases and we can use the
secure version only in some cases. For instance, you could
be proxying ND because you are a home agent and defending
a mobile node's home address on its behalf. Or you could be
proxying ND because of some link layer bridging scheme.

Now, for the delegation that I mentioned above to work, there
has to be some kind of (security) relationship between the real
node and the proxy. There would be such a relationship in the
case of Mobile IP, for instance. But it isn't clear that you
would always have it in the bridging case -- typically there's
no security association with the bridge! But you might be able
to do this securely if you had layer 2 security from the node
to the bridge.

--Jari


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