Hi,

I also have some comments on draft-pwouters-ipsecme-child-pfs-info. 

>From the Introduction I learned that the problem this draft is trying to
address is the 
lack of knowledge at the time the initial Child SA is being created in
IKE_AUTH of what KE methods are 
configured for subsequent rekeys of this Child SA.

So, the main purpose is to allow manual troubleshooting of possible
configuration mismatches, right?

The proposed solution is limited in its functionality:
- it doesn't support policies when some KE method are tied to particular
ENCR & PRF transforms
- it doesn't support RFC9370
- there is no guarantee that the KE method included will be the same as used
during actual rekey

It also requires quite a lot of changes in the code - currently it is
assumed that crypto transforms
negotiation is done entirely within SA payload processing. With this
proposal we have also
look at this notify, which complicates code.

Given the complexity and serious limitations of the proposed solution and
assuming that 
its main purpose is to allow manual troubleshooting of possible
configuration mismatches,
I wonder whether it would be more simple and reliable way to achieve this to
just
have a button in the implementation's UI "Test Child SA rekey"? The operator
would push this 
button to immediately force a rekey once initial SA is established and
troubleshoot
should there are any errors.

Regards,
Valery.


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