On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Hannes Gredler wrote:

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 09:20:05PM -0700, Pradosh Mohapatra wrote:
| > We seem to be in a bit of a jam :( I don't think SIDR is going to be
| > able to, by declaration, get opensource implementations of AO to
| > appear. I don't see non-open-source implementations on the server side
| > for tcp-md5 sadly either, but at least fbsd/obsd/linux have tcp-md5
| > support.
|
| We don't seem to be converging. I would suggest that we keep the status quo
| and make ssh mandatory to implement. Other mechanisms may get prescribed
| in future as & when they become commonly available.

not sure if mandating a single transport is needed at all.

since the pros and cons of the various transport protocols
(TCP, TCP-MD5, TCP-AO, IPSec, SSH) are well understood, why not simply
enumerating the choices and leave it to the operator's local security policy
which one to deploy ?

Leaving it up to operator choice still leaves the question of what will be implemented. If we don't have a mandatory to implement protocol, can we be sure that an operator will have interoperating implementations wrt secure transport protocols from which to choose?

--Sandy, as member only


IMO you cannot dictate local security policy as they are different between
operators. also if the level of containment is sufficiently enough (e.g.
local-cache only reachable through vrf, not accessible through internet
it is perfectly reasonable even to load your cache records using vanilla TCP.)
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