Re: [tcpinc] WGLC for draft-ietf-tcpinc-tcpeno

2017-02-04 Thread Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE)
[CCing TCPM for the part that matters to TCPM] > 4. citing drafts in support of future large SYN options: > “Is there harm in doing this? E.g., is it bad practice to cite internet > drafts (non-normatively, of course) in an RFC?” > > 4.a. Citing drafts does go against the current BCP, as I

Re: [tcpinc] Encryption of TCP Options

2016-04-29 Thread Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE)
> > On Apr 28, 2016, at 9:26 AM, to...@isi.edu wrote: > > > > I guarantee someone will show us a middlebox that NEEDS to modify > every > > option we currently have and every option we will ever create. > > I'd put it the other way around. The fact that middleware *can* get to > something lets

Re: [tcpinc] Encryption of TCP Options

2016-04-29 Thread Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE)
> But more to the point, what is your concrete proposal? 1. Get an ExId from IANA. I think filling out http://www.iana.org/form/protocol-assignment can be done in 5min. This can be done by anybody interested in experimenting with TCP options, because it is clear that there is a need to

Re: [tcpinc] Encryption of TCP Options

2016-04-29 Thread Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE)
> More importantly, I don't want to keep re-litigating this point. If you'd > formed working group consensus around getting an ExID, we would have switched > to RFC6994. At this point, we're on the home > stretch for an RFC and have a bunch of deployed code out there, so our > efforts are

Re: [tcpinc] Encryption of TCP Options

2016-04-28 Thread Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE)
> >> Another approach here would be to make it easy for other RFC authors > to > >> leverage tcpcrypt to protect the privacy of there options. For any > >> options that are tied to data, moving them in-band to special TLV > >> frames > >> might make the most sense. > > > > Formally, that would

Re: [tcpinc] Encryption of TCP Options

2016-04-28 Thread Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE)
> Another approach here would be to make it easy for other RFC authors to > leverage tcpcrypt to protect the privacy of there options. For any > options that are tied to data, moving them in-band to special TLV > frames > might make the most sense. Formally, that would require a proposed

Re: [tcpinc] Encryption of TCP Options

2016-04-28 Thread Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE)
- From: EXT Mirja Kühlewind [mailto:mirja.kuehlew...@tik.ee.ethz.ch] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 11:07 AM To: Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE); tcpinc Subject: Re: [tcpinc] Encryption of TCP Options Hi Michael, see below. On 27.04.2016 09:38, Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE) wrote: > I th

Re: [tcpinc] Encryption of TCP Options

2016-04-27 Thread Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE)
I think this could be done for non-SYN options that do not modify the semantics of the key TCP header fields. But there are not to many of those options and putting them inside TCPINC gets relatively close to developing a new shim layer transport inside a "TCPINC tunnel". As far as I

Re: [tcpinc] Confirmation of consensus to adopt API document

2016-04-12 Thread Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE)
> > An abstract API should never need to get into such a level of detail > > to require a particular implementation. If you're aiming for something > > beyond that, IMO the IETF is the wrong place (e.g., a better place > > would be POSIX). > To this point, does it make sense to use a common

Re: [tcpinc] Confirmation of consensus to adopt API document

2016-04-12 Thread Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE)
discuss this formal question. Michael -Original Message- From: Tcpinc [mailto:tcpinc-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of EXT Stephen Farrell Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 11:55 AM To: Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE); David Mazieres expires 2016-07-10 PDT; EXT Kyle Rose; tcpinc Subject: Re: [

Re: [tcpinc] Confirmation of consensus to adopt API document

2016-04-12 Thread Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE)
Inline -Original Message- From: EXT David Mazieres [mailto:dm-list-tcpcr...@scs.stanford.edu] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 6:52 PM To: Scharf, Michael (Nokia - DE); EXT Kyle Rose; tcpinc Subject: Re: [tcpinc] Confirmation of consensus to adopt API document "Scharf, Michael (Nokia