Re: RFC-Editor note on draft-ietf-mobileip-reg-revok-07.txt - please approve/announce

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <E19LVZa-000CbA-00@psg.com>, Allison Mankin writes:
>draft-ietf-mobileip-reg-revok-07.txt 
>
>This document is awaited by 3GPP2 and Steve Bellovin and the editors/chairs 
>agreed on an RFC Editor note for it today, which follows.  Thomas asked me to
>stand in for him (because of the 3GP22 deadline).  Here is the RFC-Editor note
>and now this should be approved and announced.  Steve, will you send in the
>removal of your Discuss vote on this, if you haven't already?

I did on the call today.
>
>
>RFC-Editor, in Section 7.2 replace:
>
>Old:
>         Revocation messages
>         defined in this document which are passed between home and 
>	 foreign agents in the revocation process MUST be protected by 
>	 either the same foreign-home authenticators defined in [1], or 
>	 another authentication mechanism at least as secure and agreed 
>	 upon by the end agents, e.g., IPSec and IKE.
>
>New:
>
>	All foreign and home agents MUST support protection of revocation
>	messages via the foreign-home authenticators defined in [1].
>	They MAY implement other mechanisms of equal or greater
>	strength; if such mechanisms are known to be available to
>	both parties, they MAY be used instead.
>

I don't think it's 7.2 any more.  It looks like 6.2.

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