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More inadequacies in draft-ietf-ipsec-ipsec-doi-03.txt...



There is an implementation survey which, among other things, discusss
geneology of ISAKMP implementations.  Based on conversations with several
vendors, I don't think everyone is using the reference implementation as a
base.

The site we had arranged to use for the survey is no longer available, I am
working with the WG chairs to find another site.

>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 23:14:16 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Ben Rogers <ben@Ascend.COM>
>To: ipsec@tis.com
>Subject: More inadequacies in draft-ietf-ipsec-ipsec-doi-03.txt...
>Reply-To: ben@Ascend.COM (Ben Rogers)
>Sender: owner-ipsec@ex.tis.com
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>>From draft-ietf-ipsec-isakmp-08.txt:
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>    2.1 ISAKMP Terminology
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>    ...
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>    Security Parameter Index (SPI) An identifier for a Security Assocation,
>    relative to some security protocol.  Each security protocol has its own
>    ``SPI-space''.  A (security protocol, SPI) pair may uniquely identify an
>    SA. The uniqueness of the SPI is implementation dependent, but could be
>    based per system, per protocol, or other options.  Depending on the DOI,
>    additional information (e.g.  host address) may be necessary to identify
>    an SA. The DOI will also determine which SPIs (i.e.  initiator's or re-
>    sponder's) are sent during communication.
>
>Curiously the DOI does not define this.
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>Has anyone been able to produce interoperable code without using the
>reference implementation?
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>ben
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