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Re: draft-simpson-esp-des1-v2-00.txt to Draft Standard
Jeff Schiller (the Security Area Director) has indicated that:
RFC-1829 is the product of the IPSEC working group. It is for the
working group to decide whether or not to advance it. I will happi
ly
act upon a recommendation of the working group as communicated to
me
by the chair.
As interoperability has been demonstrated between 2 or more
implementations, I ask that this document be immediately forwarded
(within a few days) to the Area Director for advancement to Draft
Standard.
I'm afraid I disagree; this document is not ready for advancement.
First, it's the wrong document. Given the new structure (i.e., as
described in draft-ietf-ipsec-new-esp-00.txt), there's far too much
in your draft. The CAST-128 draft (draft-ietf-ipsec-esp-cast-128-cbc-00.txt)
or RC5-CBC draft (draft-ietf-ipsec-esp-rc5-cbc-00.txt) are much better
models for what's needed. (Bill, I realize you feel differently. I
don't like documents that overspecify stuff -- changes to the base
document's headers would require changes to your document as well,
quite unnecessarily.)
Second, given the new structure -- with authentication folded in with
ESP -- I don't know of any implementations. I suppose one could say
that the DES-CBC part is ready, but it's a bit hard to assess without
the framework.