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Re: exchange type 6?
Neither of which make it OK to steal a reserved value. Nortel can
do it too and it still isn't right.
Dan.
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:55:08 PST you wrote
> I have seen it in drafts that dont expire till april and have been
> implemented elsewhere than cisco.
> /Gaurav Khanna
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Harkins [mailto:dharkins@potassium.cips.nokia.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 4:32 PM
> To: jeff
> Cc: ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
> Subject: Re: exchange type 6?
>
>
> A Cisco implementation? That's regrettable. Somebody must've put it
> there after I left because I didn't do it. Exchange #6 is reserved for
> "ISAKMP Future Use" but a now-expired internet draft used it. The
> procedure is to use a "private use" number for drafts and if it is
> advanced it is awarded a real number by IANA. It is for this reason--
> some drafts have problems and are never advanced so it is unwise to
> tie up magic numbers for evolutionary dinosaurs-- that these rules were
> put in place.
>
> Hopefully the next exchange that is advanced will be awarded 6 and all
> those people who implemented the now-expired internet draft will be SOL.
>
> Dan.
>
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:13:05 PST you wrote
> > Has ISAKMP exchange type #6 been defined? I've seen this
> > transmitted by a Cisco IPSec implementation.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jeff Enderwick
> >
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