Hi Jeff, > On Jul 20, 2020, at 5:48 PM, Jeffrey Haas <jh...@pfrc.org> wrote: > > Mahesh, > > While reviewing version -10, I had the following questions: > > For the state machine changes, in the Init->Init state, we have NULL auth. > While this is a "boring" transition, it's also happening at a very slow part > of the state machine; timers should be once a second. Is there a strong > argument to use NULL here?
Not particularly. The reason to choose NULL was because of the (limited) impact it would have. But if the WG feels otherwise, I can change it to Auth. > > In section 3: > : Sequence Number: The sequence number for this packet. Implementation > : may use sequence numbers (bfd.XmitAuthSeq) as defined in BFD > : [RFC5880], or secure sequence numbers as defined in Secure BFD > : Sequence Numbers [I-D.ietf-bfd-secure-sequence-numbers]. > > In the core BFD spec, it distinguishes between occasional and meticulous > modes and uses different code points to determine what you do. I suspect > your intent is that we always use meticulous mode here? Yes, the intent was meticulous. I can clarify that. > > -- Jeff > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 01:56:14PM -0700, Mahesh Jethanandani wrote: >>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts >>> directories. >>> This draft is a work item of the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection WG of >>> the IETF. >>> >>> Title : Optimizing BFD Authentication >>> Authors : Mahesh Jethanandani >>> Ashesh Mishra >>> Ankur Saxena >>> Manav Bhatia >>> Filename : draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication-10.txt >>> Pages : 8 >>> Date : 2020-07-13 >>> >>> Abstract: >>> This document describes an optimization to BFD Authentication as >>> described in Section 6.7 of BFD RFC 5880. This document updates RFC >>> 5880. > > Mahesh Jethanandani mjethanand...@gmail.com
