RE: NAT Traversal

["Chinna N.R. Pellacuru" <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Chinna N.R. Pellacuru wrote:

> - Because of the above enormous overhead, it becomes absolutely necessary
> for the encapsulation schemes to "discover NAT". All the current schemes
> propose modifying IKE to do this. IKE is already considered to be too
> complex, and we thought that the IETF will not approve anymore changes to
> IKE anyway. But, looks like most people are OK with modifying IKE just for
> this one thing. Even if the WG is OK with it, we are still paying a price
> of increasing the complexity of IKE.
>

It almost looks as if some people seem to be having their own hidden
agenda to make IKE as complex as possible, so that when the complexity
becomes unmanageble, they can promote their pet key management protocols,
over IKE :-)

    chinna