As a practical matter, what do you think the effect of the "MUST" in the last sentence will be?
-- Doug Montgomery Mgr. Internet & Scalable Systems Research / ITL / NIST On 8/2/11 1:34 PM, "Paul Hoffman" <[email protected]> wrote: >Greetings again. Section 7 of draft-ietf-sidr-rpki-rtr-14 has a list of >supported transports. However, it does not list the one that some people >have said that they expect it to be run under sometimes, namely bare TCP. >If we all know that this is likely to be the case, we should have it >listed in the document. I propose the following for the end of section 7, >just before 7.1: > > Caches and routers MAY use unprotected TCP as a transport, > even though this provides none of the security protections of > the other protocols listed here. Unprotected TCP MUST only be > used when there is other forms of trusted security in place. > >Of course, we can also just ignore the fact that many users want to do >this, but being honest in the document might be better than pretending >otherwise. > >--Paul Hoffman > >_______________________________________________ >sidr mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr _______________________________________________ sidr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr
