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

Dan McDonald <danmcd@sun.com> Tue, 24 November 2009 01:12 UTC

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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:12:28 -0500
From: Dan McDonald <danmcd@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:37:22PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> This has flummoxed a few reviewers. Tables such as those in section 3.3.2
> are already out of date because things have been added since RFC 4306. I
> propose that we remove all these tables from IKEv2bis, and add notes
> pointing to the current IANA registries. I cannot see how doing this lookup
> will hurt developers: in fact, it forces them to actually look at the
> up-to-date tables. I can see how we might want to leave the tables in, but
> it really is confusing.

Can you move 'em to an appendix, with a permanent URL reference to the IANA
up-to-date versions?

Dan

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