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Re: TOS copying considered harmful
Stephen Kent wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> I agree with Henry here. We have security issues that influence
> whether, when, and how we copy data between the red and black IP
> headers, in tunnel mode. 2003 is not attuned to the issues, nor
> should it be.
>
> In the rewrite of 2401, we will try to do a much better job of
> describing these mappings, and the rationale behind each. We didn't
> get all of them right last time and will try to do better this time
> around.
Would it not be preferable to get those issues in to 2003bis, in one
place?
(they _are_ security considerations).
(I'm not proposing to omit the changes, just to roll them, and their
protocol implications, into 2003bis)
Joe
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