Re: is manual keying mandatory

Steve Sneddon <sned@cisco.com> Tue, 24 March 1998 01:11 UTC

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 17:22:14 -0800
To: bkavsan@ire-ma.com
From: Steve Sneddon <sned@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: is manual keying mandatory
Cc: Dave Carrel <carrel@ipsec.org>, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>, ipsec@tis.com
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I totally agree - no changes & no delay.

I wasn't proposing changing the MUST. I was only trying to understand the
parameters on what had to "work" in order for an implementation to be called
"compliant". I think I understand that now from the information from the
respondents, and the lack thereof from others.

Thanks folks, and sorry for any consternation I may have caused.

At 05:47 PM 3/23/98 -0500, Bronislav Kavsan wrote:
>Dave Carrel wrote:
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>> We all know why manual keying doesn't scale and we
>> all know why it's impractical in most real world situations.
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>Just admitting this makes this MUST a big joke....As far as the danger of
delaying
>the documents - I agree - we shouldn't delay.
>--
>Bronislav Kavsan
>IRE Secure Solutions, Inc.
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