Re: [Isms] open issues

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder at jacobs-university.de>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:11:04PM -0400, David B Harrington wrote:
 
> For incoming messages, the transport model has no idea which message
> version is being used. The transport model only forwards the
> wholeMessage as received from the network (e.g. passed by SSH).
> Determining which message version does not happen until the Message
> Processing Subsystem decodes the message version from the ASN.1
> format, and then passes the wholeMessage to the appropriate message
> processing model for processing. The transport subsystem should not
> care which mesage version is being carried.

The decision which security model is called is taken by the MPM; so is
it not sufficient to modify the community-based MPM to check the
existance of a tmStateReference?

/js

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