[email protected] writes:
> I agree that rekeying is currently not very easy to understand.  But
> e.g. early drafts of ikev2-clarifications (-00 and -01) included some
> text wondering about what exactly N(REKEY_SA) means (that is, what is
> different when you do/don't include REKEY_SA in CREATE_CHILD_SA
> exchange), and all of those reasons (which I think you also
> commented back then) would IMHO allow the new SA to be narrower
> than the old (even when N(REKEY_SA) is included)...

I originally also tought so, i.e. that is the reason this issue is
here in the first place. I.e. if the narrower traffic selectors are
allowed, then we MUST also have traffic selectors from the triggering
packet.

Then other people convinced me that if there would be reason for the
rekeyed SA to have narrower traffic selectors that are currently used,
then the SA would have been already deleted because it would have been
against policy, thus such situation cannot ever happen.

Check the original ticket description
(http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/ipsecme/trac/ticket/12?version=1#L1).

I do not really have strong opinion which way to go, but we either
needs to make sure there is the triggering packet traffic selectors
(which might be problematic if SA was rekeyed because of time) and the
rekey can narrow down traffic selectors. Or we assume that narrowing
case cannot happen, as the SAs were already deleted before they were
rekeyed in such situations, and we can say that traffic selectors MUST
NOT narrow down.
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