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Re: INITIAL-CONTACT issues
Rodney Thayer wrote:
>
> Some of us are not terribly thrilled with the unreliable nature of UDP
> and the retry burden placed on IKE. Van Jacobsen's law applies --
> "People who don't use TCP are doomed to re-invent it."
>
> Try running an IKE session between San Jose California and
> somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean and watch the pretty retry-
> logic crashes.
>
(posting from home)
Before this goes any further, let me say that I too struggle with the
problems inherent in the UDP decision, in which I didn't participate. I
was just attempting to reconstruct some of the arguments that must have
gone into it, and I'll add that the arguments are not entirely without
merit.
I assume you were involved in that original discussion in some fashion,
Rodney. I was not participating in the ipsec wg whenever this occurred,
but I assume the usual hearty debate occurred, and that this decision is
on par with other ipsec consensus design decisions in terms of caliber.
Am I being naive?
Scott
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