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Transition to Full BGPsec Deployment: Transitive-BGPsec is Incompatible with BGPsec
draft-wang-sidrops-bgpsec-transition-01

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Authors Ke Xu , Xiaoliang Wang , Zhuotao liu , Li Qi , Yangfei (Basil) Guo
Last updated 2026-06-10 (Latest revision 2025-12-07)
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Abstract

This document elaborates on the reasons why it is unfeasible to reconstruct the native-BGPsec as a transitive approach, such that a BGP update with a correctly signed BGPsec_PATH attribute can traverse legacy areas and afterwards it can still be properly processed by subsequent native-BGPsec speakers.

Authors

Ke Xu
Xiaoliang Wang
Zhuotao liu
Li Qi
Yangfei (Basil) Guo

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