Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

At 8:12 PM -0500 11/23/09, Dan McDonald wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:37:22PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>
>> This has flummoxed a few reviewers. Tables such as those in section 3.3.2
>> are already out of date because things have been added since RFC 4306. I
>> propose that we remove all these tables from IKEv2bis, and add notes
>> pointing to the current IANA registries. I cannot see how doing this lookup
>> will hurt developers: in fact, it forces them to actually look at the
>> up-to-date tables. I can see how we might want to leave the tables in, but
>> it really is confusing.
>
>Can you move 'em to an appendix, with a permanent URL reference to the IANA
>up-to-date versions?

As long as you mean "an appendix that clearly says 'these were in RFC 4306 but are now out-of-date but are here just for reference and you want to look at <URL>'", I'm OK with that as well.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium