The following version addresses all open comments. Jürgen's addressable comments were also covered. He has yet to reply to the response to his directorate review. In the absence of further comments, I'd suggest moving the draft forward.
-- Jeff > On Apr 16, 2025, at 8:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Internet-Draft draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication-24.txt is now > available. It is a work item of the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) > WG of the IETF. > > Title: Optimizing BFD Authentication > Authors: Mahesh Jethanandani > Ashesh Mishra > Ankur Saxena > Manav Bhatia > Jeffrey Haas > Name: draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication-24.txt > Pages: 26 > Dates: 2025-04-16 > > Abstract: > > This document describes an optimization to BFD Authentication as > described in Section 6.7 of BFD RFC 5880. It provides procedure > where only important BFD state transitions require strong > authentication and permits the majority of BFD Control Packets to use > a less computationally intensive authentication mechanism. This > enables BFD to scale better when there is a desire to use strong > authentication. > > The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication/ > > There is also an HTMLized version available at: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication-24 > > A diff from the previous version is available at: > https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication-24 > > Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at: > rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts >
