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

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

At 8:37 PM -0500 11/23/09, Dan McDonald wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:27:36PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>> >Can you move 'em to an appendix, with a permanent URL reference to the IANA
>> >up-to-date versions?
>>
>> As long as you mean "an appendix that clearly says 'these were in RFC 4306
>> but are now out-of-date but are here just for reference and you want to
>> look at <URL>'", I'm OK with that as well.
>
>I'd actually go one better -- snapshot what's on IANA today (or the day
>before RFC-editor pulls the switch) with the warning you quote ('... just
>for reference and you want to look at <URL>').  The warning and URL is the
>critical part.

Oh, yuck. No. I could see doing this to keep the "bis" nature of the document intact by providing the old tables, but not creating a clone of the IANA registry. I *really* don't think it is that hard for a developer to resolve a URL and read the tables there.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium