On 7 Sep 2013, at 04:05, jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Noel Chiappa) wrote: >> From: Scott Brim <scott.brim@xxxxxxxxx> > >> The encapsulation is not much of an obstacle to packet examination. > > There was actually a proposal a couple of weeks back in the WG to encrypt all > traffic on the inter-xTR stage. > > The win in doing it in the xTRs, of course, is that you don't have to go > change all the hosts, application by application: _all_ traffic, of any kind, > from that site to any/all other sites which are encryption-enabled, will get > a certain degree of confidentiality. > > Does this count as something the IETF can do reasonably quickly that will > help somewhat? :-) It certainly wouldn't hurt :) Tim