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Re: [IPsec] Early code point assignment (was: I-D Action: draft-ietf-ipsecme-chacha20-poly1305-00.txt)

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Tue, 31 March 2015 17:24 UTC

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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:24:01 -0400
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Subject: Re: [IPsec] Early code point assignment (was: I-D Action: draft-ietf-ipsecme-chacha20-poly1305-00.txt)
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On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Tero Kivinen wrote:

> How has that happened. Hmmm... looking at the archives that was there
> from the beginning. And those assignments which were done at the same
> time as RFC4306 was published (i.e. RFC4309 and RFC4106) never went
> through the IANA Expert review, hey were simply added to registry
> without asking from anybody...
>
> This was the time when we had some communications issues between IANA
> and experts...

Is that when Camellia went through as well? :P with different numbers
for IKEv1 and IKEv2 :P  [insert implementer anger :)]

> On the other hand all of these are just strings so they do not affect
> protocol.

Agreed, but it's nice to be able to grep other people's source code :P

> If people feel it would be better to fix those, we can do that, i.e.
> change:

> Or even go wild and change them:
>
> 14 	ENCR_AES_CCM_8
> 15 	ENCR_AES_CCM_12
> 16 	ENCR_AES_CCM_16
> 18 	ENCR_AES_GCM_8
> 19 	ENCR_AES_GCM 12
> 20 	ENCR_AES_GCM_16
> 25 	ENCR_CAMELLIA_CCM_8
> 26 	ENCR_CAMELLIA_CCM_12
> 27 	ENCR_CAMELLIA_CCM_16

It would be great if we could do that! But if we can change these, why
can we not also change "-" into "_" ?

Paul

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