RE: Preparatory to WGLC draft-ietf-v6ops-ipsec-tunnels

["Durand, Alain" <Alain_Durand@cable.comcast.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Fred Baker
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 7:06 PM
> To: v6ops@ops.ietf.org
> Cc: Lindqvist Erik Kurt
> Subject: Preparatory to WGLC draft-ietf-v6ops-ipsec-tunnels
> 
> This draft has had something of a tortured history, and hit a 
> bump this morning in v6ops. Next week I plan to issue a 
> working group last call on it (repeat from one about a year 
> ago) barring significant issues, and send it to the IESG. 
> However, one issue came up that I would like a clear opinion 
> from the working group on.
> 
> It describes the use of IPv6 in IPv6 and IPv4 tunnels, but 
> does not describe IPv4 in IPv6 or IPv4 tunnels. Alain Durand 
> is of the opinion that, since IPSEC is independent of the two 
> technologies, the additional work needed to make it cover the 
> case is nominal. He also thinks that it would be useful to 
> him operationally. However, the authors have not looked into 
> that, and suspect that it would require some think time and a 
> number of small changes to the draft.
> 
> If we do the work, I think that fairness to the authors calls 
> for Alain to contribute to the analysis and the editorial 
> work, at least in helping identify the edits required.
> 
> Please, I'd like an up-down decision here - drop kurt and I a 
> note privately indicating whether you think the work is 
> warranted or whether this draft should go forward as is.


 
Fred,

For the record, I'm not asking this change with my employer's hat,
but with my softwire co-chair hat.

We have a security document
(http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-softwire-security-requir
ements-01.txt)
in our wg that would gretly benefit from referencing
draft-ietf-v6ops-ipsec-tunnels
both in the context of v6 over v4 and v4 over v6, as our wg charter is
to address
both cases.

I've asked the authors of our document (Cced here) to look at
draft-ietf-v6ops-ipsec-tunnels
and identify what would need to be changed there. I would hope this
analysis could
be done quickly to help you decide if it is worth making this last
minute change
to your document for the benefit of the larger community.

   - Alain.