Re: Vendor Extensions

[Paul Hoffman / VPNC <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>]

At 11:44 AM -0400 7/23/02, Charlie_Kaufman@notesdev.ibm.com wrote:
>  > Steve Bellovin, Security Area Director, strongly commented that any
>drafts
>>  that contained specific vendor extensions would cause the IESG to be
>>  concerned and may even cause it to be rejected.  He states this in his
>  > capacity of Area Director, not as a co-author of the JFK draft.
>
>Could we get clarification of IESG policy on vendor extensions and also
>feedback from the working group on their usefulness?

Did Steve say "vendor extensions" or "specific vendor extensions"? 
Clarification would be helpful here.

>1) Is anyone using the field in IKEv1?

If you do packet dumps while watching many IPsec systems 
interoperate, you will see that many (possibly most) vendors use them 
in IKEv1.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium