Hi Yoav,

You're probably right in your speculation. But my point was that Valery's subject line said "editorial changes", and two of these changes were arguably non-editorial. Technical changes would be treated differently in an errata review and should be treated differently in a "bis" document, whose main purpose in life is to progress (i.e., stabilize) the protocol.

Thanks,
        Yaron

On 2013-10-19 15:27, Yoav Nir wrote:
Hi, Yaron

Suppose that instead of sending the message to the list yesterday, Valery had 
submitted his comments as errata a few months ago, before Sean asked us to do 
the revision. Would those errata not have been verified?

If so (and I think it's true for at least #3, #4, #7, and #11, and #6 would 
also merit some new text), the corrections would now be in the draft. So why 
not now?

Yoav

On Oct 19, 2013, at 2:56 PM, Yaron Sheffer <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Yaron,

Hi Valery,

Sorry for being the Bad Guy on this. Your #6 does not seem editorial to

I think that current text is not aligned with RFC4301.
We may leave it as is or try to find other form that
would not appear so misaligned.

Your new text is fine, if we leave it at that. If we try to add text to deal with the 
exceptional cases (same SPI shared between protocols), this will quickly become 
normative. I don't want to do it in "bis" and frankly, I think this situation 
is too rare to matter.


me. Similarly, #8 (adding new RFC 2119 language) is not editorial. I
would suggest to implement #6 only if it is critical to
interoperability or security, and to forgo #8.

What about #8 - it's just a question from me. From my feeling it must
be uppercase, but I might be wrong. We may leave it as is.

IETF process is very serious about the difference between lowercase and uppercase (see 
RFC 6919). Maybe it should have been a SHOULD to start with. But we SHOULD NOT change it 
for a "bis" document.


By the way, your correction #2 still does not do it IMHO. The sentence
refers to RFC 5996. So:

"IKEv2 as stated in RFC 4306 was a change to the IKE protocol that was
not backward compatible. RFC 5996 revised RFC 4306 to provide a
clarification of IKEv2, making minimum changes to the IKEv2 protocol.
The current document slightly revises RFC 5996 to make it suitable for
progression to Internet Standard."

Yes, your text is for RFC5996bis, while I made my notes a while ago
and the text was for RFC5996. Of course your variant is better.

Valery.

Thanks,
Yaron

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