The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Relaxed Packet Counter Verification for Babel MAC Authentication' (draft-ietf-babel-mac-relaxed-05.txt) as Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Babel routing protocol Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jim Guichard, Andrew Alston and John Scudder. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-babel-mac-relaxed/ Technical Summary This document relaxes packet verification rules defined in the Babel MAC Authentication protocol in order to make it more robust in the presence of packet reordering. Working Group Summary There is solid support for this draft in the WG. Document Quality There are two independent implementations, babeld and BIRD. See https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/babel/W5k5WNWp4A6KuOUmmrlvCPY-wr4/ Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Donald E. Eastlake 3rd. The Responsible Area Director is Andrew Alston. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce