Re: Last ditch proposal for crypto suites

["David Faucher" <dfaucher@lucent.com>]

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| The discussion of crypto suites vs. ala carte algorithm negotiation in
| IKEv2 was frustrating. I think most people like suites better (in the
| possibly unrealistic belief that we can keep the number of suites
| manageably small), but the advocates for ala carte negotiation were more
| adament about its necessity. I read the conclusion as leave the
negotiation
| as it is (ala carte). The specification for SA proposal payload in the
| IKEv2 document is 9 pages long, and they are frightening pages. It was a
| message from Angelos Keromytis saying that it gave him a headache that
| inspired me to make one more last ditch proposal.
|

Keep it simple, use suites. For those who think that a la carte
is necessary, create a Vendor ID and use the private namespace.