[IPsec] Who is the Initiator of rekeying CHILD SA?

Jaemin Park <jmpark81@gmail.com> Thu, 20 May 2010 15:37 UTC

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Subject: [IPsec] Who is the Initiator of rekeying CHILD SA?
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This can be the ridiculous question, but there exist some confusion in the
context of initiator of CHILD SA around me.

Suppose that host A and host B exist.

Host A initiated the exchanges (IKE_SA_INIT & IKE_AUTH) to establish the IKE
SA and CHILD SA with host B. (In this case, Host A is the Initiator and Host
B is responder.)
Then, host B (the responder of previous IKE exchange) initiated the CHILD SA
rekeying (CREATE_CHILD_SA) with host A.

In this case, who is the Initiator of rekeying CHILD SA? host B? or host A?
According to the RFC4306, I think host B is the initiator of CHILD SA.
Therefore, the fields such as SPIi, Ni and TSi should be the value of host
B. Am I right?