The IESG has approved the following document: - 'HMAC-SHA-2 Authentication Protocols in USM for SNMPv3' (draft-ietf-opsawg-hmac-sha-2-usm-snmp-new-05.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Operations and Management Area Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Benoit Claise and Joel Jaeggli. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-hmac-sha-2-usm-snmp-new/ The Document is intended as a Proposed Standard. It Obsoletes RFC 7630, also a PS. To cut to the chase the important and substantive change in this document vs rfc 7630 is Section 8 and 10 said: snmpModules 235 It should have said: mib-2 235 Technical Summary This document specifies several authentication protocols based on the SHA-2 hash functions for the User-based Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3 defined in RFC 3414. It obsoletes RFC 7630, in which the MIB MODULE-IDENTITY value was incorrectly specified. Working Group Summary OPSAWG was used and the working group for both the orignal and this replacement document. both have extensively reviewed and modula the error that was discovered, when populating the IANA registry. The registry has been correctly populated however the document errata is sufficiently gross as to necessitate correction. Document Quality The corrections are minor and the original document was extensively reviewed. This version also has benifeted from changes proposed by the secdir. Personnel Joel Jaeggli is sponsoring AD. No appeals, IPR, or additional formal review are anticipated or required.
