Re: Node Requirements: Issue 13 - CGA/SeND support

[arno at natisbad.org (Arnaud Ebalard)]

Hi,

Thomas Narten <narten at us.ibm.com> writes:

> This all leads me to conclude that the node requirements doc should
> not make SEND even a SHOULD. Ideally, somewhere between a MAY and
> SHOULD. I'd love to see SEND implemented and deployed (so we can
> figure out how well it works and fix any shortcomings), but I think it
> is premature to recommend its implementation an all nodes.

+1

Some implementations have been done, which provided some feedback on the
specification (padding in Signature Option, ...) but the main issue IMHO
is the lack of feedback from a deployment standpoint (router load,
certificates deployment and maintenance, ...).

Even if some vendors have various levels of support for the protocol in
their routers, there is no major client OS providing a good level of
support for the protocol: not available yet in Windows or OS X,
available in FreeBSD via the ports (DoCoMo implementation, no upstream
maintainer), externally available for Debian, not available in Ubuntu or
RedHat ... 

Cheers,

a+