RE: Last ditch proposal for crypto suites

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>]

I support the proposal, only I would substitute the words 'highly flammable'
for bombproof.

Actually as a practical matter IETF should archive all drafts and all
proposals in perpetuity, or at least for 30 years. The value of IDs as prior
art is very significant.


		Phill

> 	
> The strong and nearly unanimous reaction to this question 
> this time leads
> me to make a more radical proposal:
> 
> I propose that we remove the text for a la carte negotiation 
> from the IKEv2
> spec, and escrow it in a bombproof vault somewhere in case future
> generations want it, and replace it with the proposal from my 
> last message
> for specifying suites only. If we ever need a la carte, we
> have a backwards compatible way to add it in, but in the 
> meantime we won't
> specify it. And if we're lucky, no one will ever miss it.
> 
>           --Charlie
> 
> Opinions expressed may not even by mine by the time you read them, and
> certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or 
> otherwise).
>