Subject: Re: [IPsec] I-D Action:draft-ietf-ipsecme-esp-null-heuristics-00.txt

From: Paul Hoffman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:05:22 -0700

At 7:00 AM -0700 4/16/09, [email-masked] wrote:
>A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>This draft is a work item of the IP Security Maintenance and Extensions Working Group of the IETF.
>
>
>	Title           : Heuristics for Detecting ESP-NULL packets
>	Author(s)       : T. Kivinen, D. McDonald
>	Filename        : draft-ietf-ipsecme-esp-null-heuristics-00.txt
>	Pages           : 33
>	Date            : 2009-04-16
>
>This document describes a heuristic approach for distinguishing ESP-
>NULL (Encapsulating Security Payload without encryption) packets from
>encrypted ESP packets.  The reason for using heuristics instead of
>modifying ESP is to provide a solution that can be used now without
>updating all end nodes.  With heuristic methods, only the
>intermediate devices wanting to find ESP-NULL packets need to be
>updated.
>
>A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipsecme-esp-null-heuristics-00.txt
>

Soooo, that was two months ago, and there has been no discussion. Has anyone other than the document authors (and the WESP authors) read the document? Does the WG find this to be useful?

Tero and Dan: have you found anything that you want to change?

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium