>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Kent <kent at bbn.com> writes:
Stephen> At 8:26 AM -0400 4/28/06, Sam Hartman wrote: ... Sam,
Stephen> I think your characterization is a good one, and I have a
Stephen> guess as to why application protocol developers are
Stephen> finding that they have to work hard to use IPsec in their
Stephen> environments.
Stephen> The IPsec WG, like most others, refined its documents
Stephen> based on feedback from list members. Most of these list
Stephen> members represented VPN vendors, but there were also host
Stephen> vendors represented. However, there were no OSPF folks
Stephen> involved, nor BGP folks (other than my interest in using
Stephen> IPsec to protect BGP). So it is not surprising that
Stephen> details related to other applications were not as well
Stephen> represented.
Absolutely. But we cannot always get all parties involved. So we
work on incremental improvement.
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