Hi Eric, Thanks for your review. When the referred document mentions Section 6.7, it actually points to the Section 6.7 of RFC5880.
Thanks, Mingui > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Rescorla [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 1:49 AM > To: The IESG > Cc: [email protected]; Susan Hares; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-trill-p2mp-bfd-08: (with > COMMENT) > > Eric Rescorla has entered the following ballot position for > draft-ietf-trill-p2mp-bfd-08: No Objection > > When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all email > addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this introductory > paragraph, however.) > > > Please refer to https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.html > for more information about IESG DISCUSS and COMMENT positions. > > > The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-trill-p2mp-bfd/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > COMMENT: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I'm hoping this can be resolved quickly, as it's probably just a missing > cite. If it > turns out that there's actually missing content, this may turn into a DISCUSS. > > Multipoint BFD provides its own authentication but does not provide > encryption (see Security Considerations in [I-D.ietf-bfd- > multipoint]). As specified in this document, the point-to-multipoint > > I skimmed the reference here, but wasn't able to figure out what the > authentication was. In particular, the document says: > > If the A bit is set, the packet MUST be authenticated under the > rules of section 6.7, based on the authentication type in use > (bfd.AuthType.) This may cause the packet to be discarded. > > But there is no 6.7. So, this makes me worry that I don't understand any of > this. > _______________________________________________ trill mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/trill
