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This is a useful document as an informational RFC. The technical content is interesting and useful.

I think the document would be much improved with an introduction about what is different for "routing protocol security" rather than, say, an endnode authenticating to an access point, or nodes forming a peer relationship in an overlay network.  So, for instance, "normal security issues" (i.e., outside the scope of KARP) might assume the network is up, so that it's possible to get CRLs, or be available to be managed, whereas perhaps KARP is targetting cases which depend on less infrastructure.  It would be nice if this document were to have an introduction that talks about things like that.




As for typos...3rd line up from bottom of page 14 has a glitch involving a bunch of spaces and an extra comma after the word "peers".  And I can't parse the last sentence of the 1st paragraph of section 7. "...complexity of and update and risk...."




Speaking of PKI...the document talks about certificates expiring, but not being revoked (CRL, OCSP).

Radia