The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Authentication and Confidentiality in PIM-SM Link-local Messages ' <draft-ietf-pim-sm-linklocal-10.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Protocol Independent Multicast Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Adrian Farrel and Ross Callon. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pim-sm-linklocal-10.txt Technical Summary RFC 4601 mandates the use of IPsec to ensure authentication of the link-local messages in the Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) routing protocol. This document specifies mechanisms to authenticate the PIM-SM link-local messages using the IP security (IPsec) Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) or (optionally) the Authentication Header (AH). It specifies optional mechanisms to provide confidentiality using the ESP. Manual keying is specified as the mandatory and default group key management solution. To deal with issues of scalability and security that exist with manual keying, an optional support for automated group key management mechanism is provided. However, the procedures for implementing automated group key management are left to other documents. This document updates RFC 4601. Working Group Summary Due to limited IPsec expertise in the PIM WG, there was limited input from the WG on this document. Document Quality Two independent implementations are planned for completion in the second half of 2009. The document had substantial improvements from a SecDir review by Brian Weis. The responsible AD gave a detailed review, and the document has been updated. Personnel Stig Venaas (stig@venaas.com) is the Document Shepherd. Adrian Farrel (adrian.farrel@huawei.com) is the Responsible AD. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
