The working group will also consider other internet drafts related to this topic allowing for issues regarding change control, security, running code, etc. Intellectual property issues regarding the technology to develop a virtual router redundancy protocol will be identified and addressed. No modifications were made to the Agenda. Even though we were directed to use IPSec MD5 in the draft, no one has implemented it. This raises a process question since we cannot promote a document to Draft Standard with features we have not implemented.
Choices are to take it out or put it in a separate specification.
The customer environments for VRRP do not really require strong security so the current plan is to push on the area directors to see if we can take that 3rd method of authentication out. The working group chair has not heard back from the IESG yet. There has been a lot of discussion with the Network Management Area Director. At the time of the meeting, no new input from the area director has been received but this needs to be checked. A new draft has been produced since the previous Oslo draft.