I never said that there are service providers clamouring for WESP. You brought up a point about EGP routing protocols, and I just replied to that.
Cheers, Manav > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Harkins [mailto:dhark...@lounge.org] > Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 10.42 AM > To: Bhatia, Manav (Manav) > Cc: Dan Harkins; Jack Kohn; ipsec@ietf.org > Subject: Re: [IPsec] Traffic Visibility Future > > > I would be very much interested in a real-world example instead > of hypotheticals. What service provider is asking for WESP? > > Dan. > > On Thu, January 7, 2010 6:15 pm, Bhatia, Manav (Manav) wrote: > > Dan, > > > > [clipped] > > > >> Because it's unnecessary bloat that another group may > not have any > >> use for. ESP-null could be used, for instance, to protect > >> packets in an > >> EGP routing protocol. There is no need for WESP in such an > >> environment. > > > > EGP routing protocols, by definition and design, will > traverse multiple > > autonomous systems, and there could very well be a policy > on the edge of > > one such AS that could deny entry to any traffic that it doesn't > > recognize. > > > > Using WESP will clearly help in such cases. > > > > Cheers, Manav > > _______________________________________________ > > IPsec mailing list > > IPsec@ietf.org > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec > > > > > _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list IPsec@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec
