Transport Friendly ESP BOF (tfesp) Thursday, March 18 at 1530-1730 =============================== Chair: Steven M. Bellovin DESCRIPTION: The IPSEC protocols are very strong; however, this strength poses problems for other parts of the Internet. For example, many different people have legitimate needs to see port numbers. Network engineers need to understand what sorts of traffic are being carried, firewalls have to enforce security policies, etc. This BoF will discuss variants of ESP that can allow more of the packet to be exposed. AGENDA: 10 min Introduction, administrivia, agenda bashing 30 min Justifications -- several short talks on why we need tf-esp 30 min Alternatives -- reasons we don't need it, or other ways to accomplish the same goals 20 min Strawman solutions