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Re: Effective policy enforcement



In message <199704100013.TAA00333@morden.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>, Michael
Richa
rdson writes:
>  This requires an extensive API.

Well, i would think that the important attributes are whether the link
is:

a) encrypted
b) authenticated
c) tunneled (ie the options are protected)
d) compressed (?)

These are addressed (at least to some extend) in Dan McDonald's draft.

>  I'd like to see, as a first step, a work new ipsec wg work item: we
>should be writing drafts to describe SPKI auth/tag fields. I suggest
>that this be scheduled for post-Proposed Status for the existing drafts.

I agree. I wouldn't even mind working towards it.
-Angelos