Subject: [secdir] Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-ko-mif-security-considerations-00.txt

From: Paul Hoffman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 17:02:32 -0700

>A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>directories.
>
>
>	Title		: MIF Security Analysis
>
>	Author(s)	: N. Ko, C. Williams, J. Qin
>	Filename	: draft-ko-mif-security-considerations-00.txt
>	Pages		: 6
>	Date		: 2009-7-6
>	
>MIF is working to describe the issues of attaching to multiple
>   networks on hosts and document existing practice.  The group is also
>   expected to analyze the impacts and effectiveness of these existing
>   mechanisms.  A MIF node will have various security considerations
>   that must be reviewed.  This document provides security analysis for
>   MIF.  MIF security requirements are also presented.
>
>
>A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ko-mif-security-considerations-00.txt
>

This seems like pretty important work. I am not a routing person at all, but if someone here who cares about routing and/or multihoming wants to follow this from the early days, I bet we'll have fewer big issues at the end and the world will be much better off.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium