# Ipsec extern proposal
**URL:** https://forum.p4.org/t/ipsec-extern-proposal/1186
**Category:** Architecture Working Group
**Created:** [May 13, 2024, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.p4.org/t/ipsec-extern-proposal/1186 "2024-05-13T10:25:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@aakashks](https://forum.p4.org/u/aakashks)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2024, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.p4.org/t/ipsec-extern-proposal/1186/1 "2024-05-13T10:25:06Z")
Hi,
We(Marvell) are planning to propose an extern definition to ipsec\_accelerator{ } to PNA spec and that seems identical to the ipsec extern already defined in dpdk ([p4c/p4include/dpdk/pna.p4 at main · p4lang/p4c · GitHub](https://github.com/p4lang/p4c/blob/main/p4include/dpdk/pna.p4) )
If the community agrees this to be the right definition for IPsec (if not, would be interested to know why ??) and IPsec being one of the primary NIC use-case, shouldn’t this extern be moved to PNA spec as a standard ?
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### Author:  [@fruffy](https://forum.p4.org/u/fruffy)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.p4.org/t/ipsec-extern-proposal/1186/2 "2024-05-13T16:38:22Z")
Have you reached out to the architecture working group about this?
[https://groups.google.com/a/lists.p4.org/g/p4-arch](https://groups.google.com/a/lists.p4.org/g/p4-arch)