Technical Summary
This document describes a non backward-compatible technique that may
be used by OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) implementations to prevent
replay attacks even on cryptographically secured messages. The draft
increases the sequence number size to 8 bytes and carries it in OSPF
packet trailers.
Working Group Summary
There were some discussions around the technique and some additional
issues with existing implementations were found, which increased the
applicability of the given solution.
Document Quality
The document updates RFC2328 and RFC5709. The document has existed
for more than 3 years as a WG document and has undergone 9 revisions
in the period.
Personnel
Vishwas Manral is the document shepherd and Alia Atlas is the
responsible AD.