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yet another revision of the charter

  • From: Markus Jork <mjork@avici.com>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:22:34 -0500
  • Organization: Avici

On Wednesday, March 29, 2000 12:07 AM, Vijay Srinivasan  wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Here is another revision of the charter, based upon discussion at today's WG
> meeting.  I have added the following objectives:
> --
> 11. Specify standard protocols and procedures to enable header compression
> across a single link as well as across an LSP.
> 
> 12. Specify appropriate extensions to LDP and RSVP for authentication
> of LSP originators.

What is the rationale for this work item? There is already hop-by-hop
authentication that can give you a chain of trust from LSP ingress
to egress. This seems good enough for the intra-domain case.
Why the extra end-to-end authentication? Is this for some inter-domain
scenario?

Markus