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Re: reserving some SAIDs
Steve,
Ran may have advocted this but his message that I was repsonding
too suggested only the reserveration of 256 values out of the
2**32 bit SAID space under consideration. See copy of his message
at end below.
Donald
From: Steve Kent <kent@BBN.COM>
To: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd (Beast)" <dee>
Cc: ipsec@ans.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 03 Aug 94 11:25:03 -0400.
<9408031525.AA16374@skidrow.lkg.dec.com>
>Don,
>
> The path advocated by the approach Ran forwarded would use
>bits to convey SA-specific parameters. There are lots of these
>parameters. So, unless we are going to favor just a few parameters
>and just a few algorithms with their own reserved bits, we will
>quickly start using up large chunks of the SAID space.
>
>Steve
Subject: reserving some SAIDs
Author: Ran Atkinson <atkinson@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil> at internet
Date: 8/3/94 3:11 PM
One subject that I've been asked about several times by IPv6 folks
is whether we could reserve some SAID values. These could be
used for predefined meanings (e.g. use RSA with the public keys
from the DNS to encrypt/decrypt this packet). In the IPv6 drafts
I'm proposing to reserve 0xFFFFFF01 through 0xFFFFFFFF for future
use along these lines.
Comments ??
Ran
atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
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