1. OSPF WG – IETF 68 - Prague OSPF WG Document Candidates Acee Lindem/Redback Networks

2. OSPF WG – IETF 68 - Prague Stronger Non-IPSec OSPFv2 Security  draft-bhatia-manral-crypto-req-ospf-01.txt  draft-bhatia-manral-white-ospf-hmac-sha-03.txt  Presented in San Diego  Support on OSPF WG List  Impetus for non-IPSec Solution  Limitations in OSPFv3 IPSec with respect to replay protection  Simplicity and Affinity with existing OSPFv2 MD5 authentication  Allows stronger authentication without IPSec (not available on all platforms, offerings, etc).  Recommend Adoption as OSPF WG Document

3. OSPF WG – IETF 68 - Prague OSPFv2 IPSec Security  draft-gupta-ospf-ospfv2-sec-00.txt  Not presented yet  Impetus for OSPFv2 IPSec Solution  Affinity with OSPFv3 work on IPSec  Alignment with IETF Security Direction  Hopefully, easier migration to new algorithms, etc.  Recommend Review and Consideration - Will get it presented in Chicago (either by an author or myself)

4. OSPF WG – IETF 68 - Prague Update to OSPF Graceful Restart  draft-holla-ospf-update-graceful-restart-02.txt  Presented in Montreal  Two changes  Helper criteria for termination changed  Explicit signaling for GR helper termination  Explicit signaling for GR helper has had some support (but primarily from a single enterprise)  There are situations where notification can be expedited.  Recommend making a decision  Don’t like helper termination criteria since better solutions have be proposed but no requirement

5. OSPF WG – IETF 68 - Prague Extensions to OSPFv2 for Advertising Optional Route/Link Attributes  draft-mirtorabi-ospf-tag-02.txt  Provides a mechanism for advertising additional attributes for OSPFv2 prefixes and links (e.g., Tag)  Requirement – As author, you know I believe there is a requirement  Can’t think of better way to do it.  Interest in Implementation?