Re: [IPsec] RFC 5996 on Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)

Dear IPsec-heads,

RFC 5996 - IKEv2-bis, is a major accomplishment of this community.

I would like to thank the authors: Charlie, Paul, Yoav and Pasi for a 
great deal of time and effort that went into polishing this document. 
And to thank the many people on this mailing list who participated in 
hundreds of discussion threads leading to this point.

I am sure even RFC 5996 is not perfect, but we are all due some 
congratulations today!

Thanks,
	Yaron

On 09/14/2010 09:38 PM, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org wrote:
>
> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
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>          RFC 5996
>
>          Title:      Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version
>                      2 (IKEv2)
>          Author:     C. Kaufman, P. Hoffman,
>                      Y. Nir, P. Eronen
>          Status:     Standards Track
>          Stream:     IETF
>          Date:       September 2010
>          Mailbox:    charliek@microsoft.com,
>                      paul.hoffman@vpnc.org,
>                      ynir@checkpoint.com,  pe@iki.fi
>          Pages:      138
>          Characters: 346466
>          Obsoletes:  RFC4306, RFC4718
>
>          I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2bis-11.txt
>
>          URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5996.txt
>
> This document describes version 2 of the Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
> protocol.  IKE is a component of IPsec used for performing mutual
> authentication and establishing and maintaining Security Associations
> (SAs).  This document replaces and updates RFC 4306, and includes all
> of the clarifications from RFC 4718.  [STANDARDS TRACK]
>
> This document is a product of the IP Security Maintenance and Extensions Working Group of the IETF.
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> This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
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