On Jan 25, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Tero Kivinen wrote:

> Yoav Nir writes:
> 
>> Issue #141 - Silently deleting the Child SA after a CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND
>> ======================================================================
>> Section 2.25: "A peer that receives a CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND
>> notification SHOULD silently delete the Child SA": Is this really
>> necessary? I think this notification should only occur in cases where
>> DELETE payload for this Child SA pair has already been sent, and
>> probably has been processed already by the time the CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND
>> notification is received.
>> 
>> No responses were received for this.
> 
> I proposed new text for this:
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipsec/current/msg05695.html
> 
>> My opinion is that CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND will usually not occur at all.
>> Even if lifetime is the same on both peers, rekeying is always done
>> earlier than deleting (for example, if your SAs last 1 hour, you
>> might rekey at 58 minutes, but only delete after 60 minmutes), so
>> collisions of rekey and delete will be rare. Because of this, I
>> believe that the CHILD_SA_NOT_FOUND will stem from some mismatch in
>> the SAD between the two peers. Yes, this probably indicates a bug
>> somewhere, but these things do happen. I believe the text should
>> stay, as it clarifies that the peer does not need to create a new
>> INFORMATIONAL exchange with a DELETE payload to discard. In fact the
>> text already has in brackets "(if it still exists)"
> 
> That bracketed part was added to solve this #141. 
> 
>> If anyone else has comments about this issue, please raise them NOW,
>> because we are going to close this in a few days.
> 
> So I think this issue can already be closed, as the at least from my
> point of view the fix has already been added to the -07 version. 

Thanks. Closed.

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