A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : In-Band Authentication Extension for Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Author(s) : Manav Bhatia Dacheng Zhang Filename : draft-bhatia-zhang-pim-auth-extension-01.txt Pages : 11 Date : 2012-03-08 Existing security mechanisms for the Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) routing protocol mandates to use IPsec to provide message authenticity and integrity. This draft proposes an embedded authentication mechanism to facilitate data origin authentication and integrity verification for PIM packets in the cases where IPsec is not applied. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bhatia-zhang-pim-auth-extension-01.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ This Internet-Draft can be retrieved at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bhatia-zhang-pim-auth-extension-01.txt _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt