Re: [IPsec] WG adoptation call for draft-smyslov-ipsecme-ikev2-aux-02

["Valery Smyslov" <[e-mail]>]

In that case, isn't the effort of having to explicitly specify every single case actually the 
same as if every of these documents would simply specify it's own exchange that
takes place between IKE_SA_INIT and IKE_AUTH?
What is the advantage of using INTERMEDIATE then, instead of just rolling your own
solution?

          The advantage is that some common things (like authentication
          of the intermediate exchange, its protection, error handling etc.)
          remain the same. So you don’t need to specify this again
          and you can have a single piece of code for this.

          Note, that we don’t have separate exchanges for e.g. deleting SAs,
          reporting errors, liveness checking, - it’s a single INFORMATIONAL
          that is used for all these (and many other) purposes.

          Regards,
          Valery


Regards,
Tobias