The MPLS WG Archive

[Alan Hannan <alan@routingloop.com>]

  I suggest that folks review the work done on Secure Frame Relay.

  -a

Thus spake Ben Black (ben@layer8.net)
 on or about Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 09:49:16AM -0700:
> Could you elaborate further on the requirements for a secure MPLS 
> mechanism?  Eager hackers seems a bit vague.
> 
> 
> Ben
> 
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:02:36AM +0000, Tissa Senevirathne wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > At Yokhoma during PWe3 session, it was indicated that hackers are waiting 
> > for the day that L2 VPN get exposed in the WAN.
> > 
> > In light of that I thought to restart the discussion on Secure MPLS.
> > 
> > The link below is Secure MPLS ID. This ID present how MPLS payloads can be 
> > encrypted in a similar manner like IPsec when upper layers does not have 
> > security capabilities. Or on links between PE to PE that are exposed to 
> > public networks.
> > 
> > http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-tsenevir-smpls-02.txt
> > 
> > For those who are lot in to Security the DOI (Domain of Interpretation) for 
> > Secure MPLS can be found in
> > 
> > http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-tsenevir-smpls-doi-01.txt
> > 
> > Could you provide comments and feedback.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Tissa
> > 
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