Re: Interoperability - Overlapping requests

[Charlie_Kaufman@notesdev.ibm.com]

> A question regarding Section 2.3 of ikev2-06.
> Perhaps I am not understanding the verbage correctly, but I could foresee
> differing interpretations
> being made by different developers.
>
> The first paragraph states:
>
> In order to maximize IKE throughput, an IKE endpoint MAY issue
>    multiple requests before getting a response to any of them. For
>    simplicity, an IKE implementation MAY choose to process requests
>    strictly in order and/or wait for a response to one request before
>    issuing another. Certain rules must be followed to assure
>    interoperability between implementations using different strategies.

I agree it is confusing. I added "if the other endpoint has indicated
its ability to handle such requests" to the end of the first
sentence. Does that make it clear?

          --Charlie

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