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Re: Deprecation of AH header from the IPSEC tool kit
RJ Atkinson writes:
> The real issue here is that VPN Product vendors currently dominate
> the IPsec WG. VPN vendors don't want to support AH and aren't building
> IPv6 products, yet they want to claim to be fully "IPsec Compliant"
> (which is marketing speak; I have no clue what it really means).
> In short, some of the impetus behind this proposal is to solve a
> marketing problem -- most of the remainder is largely smoke-screen.
I see. This couldn't have anything to do with
header bandwidth overhead concerns, not to mention
the near mind-bending complexity of 2 degrees of
freedom with ah/esp/transport/tunnel and its
interaction with things that need to consider
IP headers.
sign me Smoke E. Screen
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