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

[Jan Vilhuber <vilhuber@cisco.com>]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

>
> Please discuss and answer the following question:
>
>
> 6. Wire protocol issues
>
> 6.1 Message encoding
>
> 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?
>

Of course (duh).

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

Sure. It's not going to be cut-n-paste programming, but the closer the
format, the better we can leverage what we already KNOW of IKE and how
to implement it.

jan




> Implications from the Scenarios:
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