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Re: Modify feature of Change_Message



> From: "Housley, Russ" <housley@spyrus.com>
> The IEEE 802.10 working group spent alot of time discussing the various
> options here.  In the end, we decided that SAIDs (or SPIs in Photuris) are
> cheap, so the possibility of confusion about the attributes associated with
> any particular key should be avoided.  Therefore, if in the lifetime of a
> key two different sets of attributes need to be associted with the key,
> then these are treated as separate security associations.  It greatly
> simplifies the protocol state machine.  I suggest that you follow a similar
> track.
>
Thanks.  I agree.  Well said.

Bill.Simpson@um.cc.umich.edu
          Key fingerprint =  2E 07 23 03 C5 62 70 D3  59 B1 4F 5E 1D C2 C1 A2