On 1/18/22, 8:33 AM, "rtg-dir on behalf of Jeffrey Haas" <rtg-dir-bounces@xxxxxxxx on behalf of jhaas@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Henning,
Thank you for your comments on this draft.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 04:29:48AM -0800, Henning Rogge via Datatracker wrote:
> I have two nits with the document...
>
> 1st, I would like a clarification which/how many (all?) security measurements
> you consider mandatory... if you (as an example) run the protocol in a trusted
> environment, you might be able to skip authentication... but maybe using the
> TTL to keep the protocol "linklocal" should still be mandatory.
I believe these are addressed by core RFC 5880/5881 procedures.
Authentication is optional.
GTSM is required for single hop sessions. (RFC 5881, Section 5.)
> 2nd, I would suggest writing out the full name "Bidirectional Forwarding
> Detection (BFD)" once in the abstract just to make sure nobody confuses the
> acronym.
Thanks. I suspect this comment will also arrive via the RFC Editor.
Yes - I would have thought BFD was well-known but it is not asterisked. Perhaps due to the more common designation...
https://www.rfc-editor.org/materials/abbrev.expansion.txt
Acee
-- Jeff
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