Question

6. Describe the motivation for the IP Security (IPsec) to become Internet standards.

Answer 1

In 1994, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) issued a report titled “Security in the Internet Architecture”(RFC 1636).The report stated the general consensus that the Internet needs more and better security and identified key areas for security mechanisms. Among these were the need to secure the network infrastructure from unauthorized monitoring and control of network traffic and the need to secure enduser- to-end-user traffic using authentication and encryption mechanisms. To provide security, the IAB included authentication and encryption as necessary security features in the next-generation IP, which has been issued as IPv6. Fortunately, these security capabilities were designed to be usable both with the current IPv4 and the future IPv6.This means that vendors can begin offering these features now, and many vendors do now have some IPSec capability in their products. The IPSec specification now exists as a set of Internet standards.