[IPsec] RFC5996bis editorial change in section 1.2. The Initial Exchanges (Was Editorial changes to RFC5996)

Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi> Tue, 12 November 2013 16:08 UTC

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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:07:58 +0200
From: Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi>
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Subject: [IPsec] RFC5996bis editorial change in section 1.2. The Initial Exchanges (Was Editorial changes to RFC5996)
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Valery Smyslov writes:
> 3. Page 10.
>    "HDR contains the Security Parameter Indexes (SPIs), version numbers,
>    and flags of various sorts."
> 
> Not mentioned Message ID, Exchange Type (and Next Payload and length,
> but they are not very important here). I suggest to change:
> 
>    "HDR contains the Security Parameter Indexes (SPIs), version numbers,
>    Type of Exchange, Message ID and flags of various sorts."

I was first thinking that Message ID and Exchange Type are not very
important here either, but as I noticed that the same section do
explain Message ID earlier, and talks about Exchanges even when it
does not yet specify how different exchanges are indicated, so I think
this addition might clarify things.

Changed:

<t>HDR contains the Security Parameter Indexes (SPIs), version
numbers, and flags of various sorts.  The SAi1 payload states the
cryptographic algorithms the initiator supports for the IKE SA.  The
KE payload sends the initiator's Diffie-Hellman value.  Ni is the
initiator's nonce.</t>

to:

<t>HDR contains the Security Parameter Indexes (SPIs), version
numbers, Exchange Type, Message ID, and flags of various sorts. The
SAi1 payload states the cryptographic algorithms the initiator
supports for the IKE SA. The KE payload sends the initiator's
Diffie-Hellman value. Ni is the initiator's nonce.</t>
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