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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Dear Sirs,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">while reading ripe-554 (http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-554) carefully, I found the following discrepancies:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">In section “Requirements for network security equipment” you say that “For every mandatory standard the applicable subgroups are specified in parentheses
 at the end of the line”. Then within “Mandatory Support” you can find the following line: “Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6 [RFC5095]*”. Does the omission of any applicable subgroup mean, that this requirement is not applicable to any subgroup
 (where the “*” just indicates that this is a requirement for “IPv6 Ready Logo” only), or does it in contrast mean, that this requirement is implicitly applicable to all 3 subgroups FW, IFS and APFW?<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Within “Optional Support” of section “Requirements for network security equipment” with one exception no applicable subgroups are specified. Does this
 mean, that these optional requirements are implicitly applicable to all 3 subgroups FW, IFS and APFW? But then no applicable subgroup should be mentioned at all, hence the one exception I mentioned causes confusion: “Using IPsec to Secure IPv6-in-IPv4 Tunnels
 [RFC4891] (FW)”. And you are embarrassed even more when you see the following a few lines later: “Using IPSec to Secure IPv6-in-IPv4 Tunnels [RFC4891]”.  Hence, I assume that the first line “Using IPsec to Secure IPv6-in-IPv4 Tunnels [RFC4891] (FW)” is an
 error and has to be wiped out?<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Within “Mandatory Support” of section “Requirements for network security equipment” you find “If the request is for a dynamic internal gateway protocol
 (IGP), then the required … , OSPF-v3 [RFC5340] … must be supported.” while within  “Optional Support” of section “Requirements for network security equipment” you will see: “OSPF-v3 [RFC5340]”. Can you explain this contrariety?<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Within “Mandatory Support” of section “Requirements for network security equipment” you find “If OSPF-v3 is requested, the device must support "Authentication/Confidentiality
 for OSPFv3" [RFC4552] (FW, IPS, APFW)” while within  “Optional Support” of section “Requirements for network security equipment” you will see: “Authentication/Confidentiality for OSPF-v3 [RFC4552]”. Can you explain this contrariety?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Your answers are welcome!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:teal;mso-fareast-language:DE">Dr. Andreas Cudok</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:DE">
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        <td>DATEV eG<br/>90329 Nürnberg</td>
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        <td>Sitz: 90429 Nürnberg, Paumgartnerstraße 6-14<br/>Registergericht Nürnberg, GenReg Nr. 70</td>
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        <td>Vorstand<br/>
            Prof. Dieter Kempf (Vorsitzender)<br/>
            Dipl.-Kfm. Wolfgang Stegmann (stellvertretender Vorsitzender)<br/>
            Dipl.-Kfm. Dr. Robert Mayr<br/>
            Jörg Rabe v. Pappenheim<br/>
            Dipl.-Vw. Eckhard Schwarzer<br/>
            Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Reinhard Verholen
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