Re: AHbis WG LC: need for source address based selectors

["James Kempf" <kempf@docomolabs-usa.com>]

Steve,

> The primary motivation in the IETF for developing standards is to
> promote interoperability. What you seem to suggest is a that we not
> preclude someone from saying that they comply with IPsec, even
though
> they would be following a demuxing policy that is not used in any
> extant implementations and thus would not be interoperable with any
> of these implementations.  This does not promote interoperability;
> all it does is allow someone to claim conformance with a standard.
> That does not seem constructive and, as I noted, it only add to
> complexity.
>
> Am I missing something in your suggestion?
>

I read Tero's suggested text as only applying to a new SPI in the
reserved region. It would therefore promote interoperability for that
SPI, but should not impact any other. Perhaps the text needs to be
strengthened to make this clearer?

            jak