Re: GSE

[RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>]

On Monday, Feb 17, 2003, at 01:56 America/Montreal, Eliot Lear wrote:
> There was an "analysis" of GSE security. However, Steve Bellovin
> didn't agree with it.  I do not recall the specifics.
Correction:		The IAB (at the time, smb and other folks) and the IESG 
(jis & ml)
				and several respected Security Directorate folks all agreed
				that the claimed "analysis" was not factually correct.

> This is not to say that GSE had all the answers.  It needed work.  For 
> instance, route selection and failover did need some amount of 
> fleshing out.  But I believe it suffered a premature death.
Regardless of the history, it would not hurt for folks to study the 
concepts
behind it.  I will *beg* that we avoid the usual flame-fest that erupts 
when
the letters "GSE" are mentioned in an IPv6 context.

Ran
rja@extremenetworks.com