Hi Vishwas,
Do you recall the reason for making ESP mandatory and AH optional for OSPFv3 
IPsec? 
Thanks,
Acee
On Nov 2, 2010, at 8:05 PM, Vishwas Manral wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This errata is wrong. ESP provides authentication as well as
> confidentiality, have a look at RFC 4301.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vishwas
> 
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:53 AM, RFC Errata System
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC4552,
>> "Authentication/Confidentiality for OSPFv3".
>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> You may review the report below and at:
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=4552&eid=2599
>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> Type: Technical
>> Reported by: John W. O'Brien <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Section: 3
>> 
>> Original Text
>> -------------
>> In order to provide authentication to OSPFv3, implementations MUST support 
>> ESP and MAY support AH.
>> 
>> 
>> Corrected Text
>> --------------
>> In order to provide authentication to OSPFv3, implementations MUST support 
>> AH and MAY support ESP.
>> 
>> Notes
>> -----
>> Authentication can be provided by an implementation that supports AH only.
>> 
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>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> RFC4552 (draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-auth-08)
>> --------------------------------------
>> Title               : Authentication/Confidentiality for OSPFv3
>> Publication Date    : June 2006
>> Author(s)           : M. Gupta, N. Melam
>> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
>> Source              : Open Shortest Path First IGP
>> Area                : Routing
>> Stream              : IETF
>> Verifying Party     : IESG
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