Hi All, Allison had the following comment to the ICMPv6 draft as part of the IESG review:
> 1. IPSec processing considerations about ICMP are enough > different in the bis ESP and AH specs that I think this > document should update to require these (just approved). I looked at ESP and AH old and bis RFCs. The section on how to handle ICMP packets is not part of those RFCs. The section "ICMP Processing" was actually part of 2401 and now 2401bis. So I guess, we need to modify the text in ICMP RFC and add 2401bis to the reference list. I have the following questions/concerns: - Should 2401bis be a normative reference or informative? If normative, can we wait till 2401bis is approved? - ICMP RFC has a "MAY" requirement for configuring a node to ignore unauthenticated ICMP packets but 2401bis has a "MUST" requirement for the same thing. Are we not in conflict ? - ICMP RFC (section 5.1) briefly describes how the ICMP packets should be processed in conjunction with ESP/AH headers. 2401bis has a section "ICMP processing" (6.1) that describes the same thing in great detail. Should ICMP RFC just say that the processing rules are given in 2401bis ? Regards Mukesh -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
