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RE: Unsupported DOI attributes and values



> There is some text about that in my
> draft-ietf-ipsec-ike-ext-meth-02.txt saying (see the 12.1 first
> paragraph):

> [snip]

> 12.1.  Data Attributes, Protocol and Transform IDs
> 
> The proposal or transform payload MUST NOT be selected by the responder
> if it contains unknown protocol IDs, transform IDs, data attribute
> types, or data attribute values.
> 
> This means that an initiator SHOULD always include a proposal without
> any private-use types or values so that if the other end does not
> understand them then it may select the transform or proposal without
> private-use types or values.

I like that text - I'll put something approximating it into the ipsec-ecn
document
(we're dealing with a new IANA allocated attribute and its values)
and trust that Derrell will get RFC 2407 updated accordingly.

--David

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