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

[Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net>]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 6.1.B)  Should SOI tag its protocol with version numbers?

Yes, in both directions.

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

It should be either (a) roughly the same as IKEv1 or (b) much simpler and
cleaner.  What should be avoided is inventing another complex mess; we
already have one of those, and one is enough (or more than enough). 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net