Babel Routing Protocol over Datagram Transport Layer Security
draft-ietf-babel-dtls-10
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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org> Cc: martin.vigoureux@nokia.com, Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com>, draft-ietf-babel-dtls@ietf.org, The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, d3e3e3@gmail.com, babel@ietf.org, babel-chairs@ietf.org, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org Subject: Protocol Action: 'Babel Routing Protocol over Datagram Transport Layer Security' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-babel-dtls-10.txt) The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Babel Routing Protocol over Datagram Transport Layer Security' (draft-ietf-babel-dtls-10.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Babel routing protocol Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Deborah Brungard and Martin Vigoureux. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-babel-dtls/
Technical Summary The Babel Routing Protocol does not contain any means to authenticate neighbours or protect messages sent between them. This documents specifies a mechanism to ensure these properties, using Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS). Working Group Summary There was a clear consensus in favor of the document. There was no opposition except for one participant who changed to support. Document Quality The document is of good quality and has had a reasonable variety of reviews with comments resolved to the satisfaction of the reviewers. Personnel Document Shepherd: Donald Eastlake Responsible Area Director: Martin Vigoureux