Re: SOI QUESTION: 6. Wire protocol issues: Message Encoding

[Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com>]

At 4:32 PM -0400 7/11/02, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>Please discuss and answer the following question:
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>6. Wire protocol issues
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>6.1 Message encoding
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>6.1.A) Should SOI worry about aligning parts of messages on 2 and 4
>byte boundaries?

yes.

>
>6.1.B)  Should SOI tag its protocol with version numbers?

yes.

>
>6.1.C) Should SOI format be roughly the same as IKEv1?  (See
>discussion in section 6.4, re: code preserving)

nice, but not absolutely critical