On Mar 13, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Acee Lindem wrote:
I'm been getting a lot of E-mails (well, at least 2) on the KMART BOF. There is no separate mailing list and we will not form a WG group. Here is the BOF summary I wrote:
The KMART (Key MAnagement for RouTing protocols) BOF took place on Wednesday, March 12. The name is somewhat of a misnomer as the meeting evolved into a sharing of perspectives between the Routing Area and Security Area on the direction for securing the routing protocols. No less than Four ADs spoke including Tim Polk on why he formed the BOF, Ross Callon on requirements for routing security (mainly authentication), Dave Ward on his perspective of the problems with the current IGPs, and Ron Bonica on the operational characteristics of BGP. Additionally, Sandra Murphy presented a brief summary of attacks on routing protocols and Eric Rescorla gave a fast paced tutorial on key management. The BOF was very well attended and the discussion was productive. We were particularly pleased that some the of ISP folks came to the mike and told us what problems they felt were the most pressing to solve. We'd like to encourage this dialogue to continue. The only action items from the meeting were for the Security Area to revisit the wording in RFC 3365 with respect to the routing protocol environment and for the Routing Area to pursue completion of some of the authentication work in the pipeline with renewed vigor. The TCP Authentication Option (which is actually in the Transport Area) was cited several times.
Thanks,
Acee