The IESG has received a request from the Open Shortest Path First IGP WG (ospf) to consider the following document: - 'Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3' <draft-ietf-ospf-auth-trailer-ospfv3-05.txt> as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2011-08-16. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract Currently OSPFv3 uses IPsec for authenticating protocol packets. However, there are some environments, e.g., Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs), where IPsec is difficult to configure and maintain, and this mechanism cannot be used. This draft proposes an alternative mechanism that can be used so that OSPFv3 does not depend upon IPsec for authentication. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ospf-auth-trailer-ospfv3/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ospf-auth-trailer-ospfv3/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
