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Re: [saag] draft-stjohns-sipso-05 & transport protocols



On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 12:15 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:32:44 -0700
> Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com> wrote:
> > It is IMHO not necessary to specify what a label-unaware system should
> > do with a labeled packet -- if they get one at all, it's a serious
> > error on the part of the sender.
> > 
> Actually, 793 disagrees:
> 
>   The security paramaters may be used even in a non-secure environment  
>   (the values would indicate unclassified data), thus hosts in
>   non-secure environments must be prepared to receive the security
>   parameters, though they need not send them.
> 
> The question is how realistic that statement is.

As you probably would have guessed, I think it's entirely unrealistic.

						- Bill


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