Re: SOI QUESTIONS: 2.3 Authentication styles

[Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>]

Excerpt of message (sent 19 June 2002) by Chinna N.R. Pellacuru:
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Henry Spencer wrote:
> > As has been noted before, the IPsec standards specify the results, not the
> > implementation...
> 
> Is that the majority opinion? The WG consensus? Do, most regular
> contributors to this forum agree to this?

I believe yes, yes, and yes.

ALL correctly written protocol standards specify results and not
implementation.  That's a fundamental rule of how you do
standardization and protocol specification.

		paul