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Re: Agenda for the Minneapolis meeting
In message <20010315181831.F17735@think>, Theodore Tso writes:
>That being said, I believe that if we did do a poll, we would see a
>strong mandate for something which is "implementation preserving".
>That is, it must be fairly easy (for most implementations) to be able
>to create an implementation which can simultaneously support IKE and
>IKE-bis without major code bloat.
I fear you're right -- when talking with implementors about throwing it
out and starting over, the word "lynching" was bandied about.
But if there's sentiment to go ahead and design a completely new
replacement -- well, I wouldn't be disinterested in the process.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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