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Re: Handling of IPcomp in IKEv2



At 1:52 PM -0500 12/3/02, Paul Koning wrote:
>When doing compression in software, I can easily imagine a case where
>an implementation is willing to decompress with algorithms A, B, C,
>but only wants to compress with B because A and C are too expensive in
>the compress direction when done in software.

This still seems like an edge case. Look how few compression 
algorithms we have registered, and look how hard it would be to make 
a sensible administrative interface for this.

>But come to think of it, that's easy to support.  The way to do this
>is to have each side announce what it can DEcompress (not compress).
>In other words, what it will accept inbound.

This seems fine too, and seems to cover the situation you believe in.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium