[IPsec] terminology check: "modern IPsec protocol suite"

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Wed, 08 April 2020 22:10 UTC

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Subject: [IPsec] terminology check: "modern IPsec protocol suite"
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Hi all,

draft-ietf-taps-transport-security is currently in IESG evaluation, and in
its description of IKEv2 with ESP it asserts that "IKEv2 [RFC7296] and ESP
[RFC4303] together form the modern IPsec protocol suite that encrypts and
authenticates IP packets, either for creating tunnels (tunnel-mode) or for
direct transport connections (transport-mode)."
(https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-taps-transport-security-11#section-3.4.1)
I don't think I see a problem with that description, but wanted to run it
by the WG for a quick sanity check before the document gets approved, in
case there's something I'm forgetting.

Thanks,

Ben