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Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> Tue, 24 November 2009 03:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis
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On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> I *really* don't think it is that hard for a developer to resolve a URL and read the tables there.


Leave out the table; give the URL and mention 4306.  If you have two more-or-less authoritative sources for the same information, some folks will use one and some the other.  Point to the URL as *the* source, and say that it subsumes all values given in 4306.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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