Re: [IPsec] Charter update

[Paul Wouters <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Yaron Sheffer wrote:

>>>    Recently discovered incorrect behavior of ISPs poses a
>>>    challenge to IKE, whose UDP messages (especially #3 and #4)
>>>    sometimes get fragmented at the IP level and then dropped
>>>    by these ISPs. There is interest in solving this issue by
>>>    allowing transport of IKE over TCP; this is currently
>>>    implemented by some vendors. The group will standardize such
>>>    a solution.
>> 
>> The working group had already reached consensus not to support two
>> different fragmentation solutions and to only support
>> draft-smyslov-ipsecme-ikev2-fragmentation, after Yoav's IKE TCP
>> presentation, I believe in London? So I don't think this item belongs
>> on the agenda, unless we are looking at revising that earlier decision.
>
> We have a fragmentation draft (almost) past IESG review. So we're not 
> revising any decision. "The group will standardize such a solution" is still 
> correct, until we actually publish the document.

You are revising the decision NOT to have IKE TCP:

 	"There is interest in solving this issue by
 	 allowing transport of IKE over TCP; this is currently
 	 implemented by some vendors. The group will standardize such
 	 a solution."

If you remove the first sentence, then it only talks about UDP and how
we are working on standarising fragmentation support using UDP.

Paul