Re: 2401bis Issue # 90 -- Remove the selector "data sensitivity level"

[Paul Hoffman / VPNC <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>]

At 10:23 PM -0500 10/26/03, Stephen Kent wrote:
>Dan,
>
>Yes, I know what the selector is for, but we were not seeing any use 
>and thus we felt it appropriate to ask the question.  Note that the 
>DoD-approved IP layer crypto devices do not implement IPsec quite as 
>we defined it and so it does not seem critical that we maintain this 
>for their benefit.
>
>However, I think that so long as we make this a feature that MUST be 
>implemented ONLY by IPsec systems that support labelled security 
>features, it will not cause problems for other vendors and so I 
>guess we could leave it in with the same sort of caveats we now have.

Or we could remember that we are trying to simplify things (strange, 
I know) and remove it because no one uses it.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium