[rfc-dist] RFC 5723 on Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2) Session Resumption

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        RFC 5723

        Title:      Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 
                    2 (IKEv2) Session Resumption 
        Author:     Y. Sheffer, H. Tschofenig
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       January 2010
        Mailbox:    yaronf at checkpoint.com, 
                    Hannes.Tschofenig at gmx.net
        Pages:      26
        Characters: 59201
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2-resumption-09.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5723.txt

The Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) protocol has a certain
computational and communication overhead with respect to the number
of round trips required and the cryptographic operations involved.
In remote access situations, the Extensible Authentication Protocol
(EAP) is used for authentication, which adds several more round trips
and consequently latency.

To re-establish security associations (SAs) upon a failure recovery
condition is time consuming especially when an IPsec peer (such as a
VPN gateway) needs to re-establish a large number of SAs with various
endpoints.  A high number of concurrent sessions might cause
additional problems for an IPsec peer during SA re-establishment.

In order to avoid the need to re-run the key exchange protocol from
scratch, it would be useful to provide an efficient way to resume an
IKE/IPsec session.  This document proposes an extension to IKEv2 that
allows a client to re-establish an IKE SA with a gateway in a highly
efficient manner, utilizing a previously established IKE SA.

A client can reconnect to a gateway from which it was disconnected.
The proposed approach encodes partial IKE state into an opaque ticket,
which can be stored on the client or in a centralized store, and is
later made available to the IKEv2 responder for re-authentication.  We
use the term ticket to refer to the opaque data that is created by the
IKEv2 responder.  This document does not specify the format of the
ticket but examples are provided.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the IP Security Maintenance and Extensions Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions
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