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RE: Phase 1 Re-keying Implementation Identification



At 06:28 PM 11/18/99 -0500, Andrew Krywaniuk wrote:
>As for the more general question of whether it is appropriate to use vendor
>ids to advertise a feature, this appears to be the only method available in
>IKE at the moment.

Then you should change IKE (or ISAKMP).

The first sentence of section 3.16 in ISAKMP says "The Vendor ID Payload 
contains a vendor defined constant." You are not proposing a vendor-defined 
constant, you're proposing an announcement of feature that may be 
standards-track. These are completely different.

If you want continuous channel support to be TimeStep-only, it is 
appropriate to use the Vendor ID payload. Otherwise, some other mechanism 
for both sides to be sure that the other side is using it must be developed.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium



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