Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-12-01 Thread Pasi.Eronen
Paul Hoffman wrote: - Add [IKEV2IANA] to the Normative References; it will point to the URL of the IANA registry. I don't like the idea of splitting the normative content of RFC 4306 to two different places. An informative reference would be very useful (and probably some of the tables may

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-30 Thread Valery Smyslov
You probably speaks about ideal developers. I speak about real people. I've seen a few cases when people implemented a bunch of really unnecessary things just because it was in standard. We still agree, and your answer is still inconsistent. If you worry about those type of developers, then

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-30 Thread Tero Kivinen
Paul Hoffman writes: If a developer does not know how to read the IANA tables, we are all in trouble. Nothing in the tables says you must implement every thing in these tables, of course. Then we are already in trouble. There is lots of developers who do not know about the IANA tables, they

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-30 Thread Tero Kivinen
Valery Smyslov writes: What about EAP Message format and magic numbers? Remove and just reference RFC3748 (or IANA entry for EAP)? No, those were left in because they came from an RFC, not from a particular IANA registry where the names match what we have in IKEv2bis. EAP numbers

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-30 Thread David Wierbowski
I don't agree with you. Remember, when IKEv2 was being developed, one of the motivations for single self-contained document was complaint from implementers that having 3 RFC (2408, 2409, 2407) for IKEv1 was very inconvinient and provoked confusions that led to interoperability problems. Now

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-29 Thread Valery Smyslov
For someone, who spent quite a lot of time working in this area, it is not difficult fo figure out what is really important and what is not. But, I think, a newcomer could be confused by a long list of all possible numbers. This answer is inconsistent, and that's the crux of the issue I have

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-29 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 12:19 AM +0300 11/30/09, Valery Smyslov wrote: For someone, who spent quite a lot of time working in this area, it is not difficult fo figure out what is really important and what is not. But, I think, a newcomer could be confused by a long list of all possible numbers. This answer is

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-28 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:11 PM +0300 11/27/09, Valery Smyslov wrote: Hi Paul, please, see inline. 2. IANA registry already contains some very specific entries (like, for example, those that came from RFC4595) and their number will be increasing. I think, those numbers would confuse some implementers, who

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-27 Thread Tero Kivinen
Paul Hoffman writes: At 7:24 PM +0200 11/26/09, Yaron Sheffer wrote: Given the amount of interest on the list, I prefer the do nothing approach. That makes no sense. People seem interested in fixing the problem of the lists being confusing. I agree that we should do something. There

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-27 Thread Valery Smyslov
Hi Paul, please, see inline. 2. IANA registry already contains some very specific entries (like, for example, those that came from RFC4595) and their number will be increasing. I think, those numbers would confuse some implementers, who might be thinking that they need to support all

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 1:25 PM +0200 11/26/09, Tero Kivinen wrote: Paul Hoffman writes: - Remove the numbers from every table I would rather keep the numbers for those tables which are really needed for implementing the protocol. And here we disagree completely. I hate when I am implementing something and

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-26 Thread Yaron Sheffer
To: Tero Kivinen Cc: IPsecme WG Subject: Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis At 1:25 PM +0200 11/26/09, Tero Kivinen wrote: Paul Hoffman writes: - Remove the numbers from every table I would rather keep the numbers for those tables which are really needed

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 7:24 PM +0200 11/26/09, Yaron Sheffer wrote: Given the amount of interest on the list, I prefer the do nothing approach. That makes no sense. People seem interested in fixing the problem of the lists being confusing. There is nothing confusing about removing the assigned numbers: it only

[IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-24 Thread Tero Kivinen
Paul Hoffman writes: This has flummoxed a few reviewers. Tables such as those in section 3.3.2 are already out of date because things have been added since RFC 4306. I propose that we remove all these tables from IKEv2bis, and add notes pointing to the current IANA registries. I cannot see

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-23 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 8:12 PM -0500 11/23/09, Dan McDonald wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:37:22PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: This has flummoxed a few reviewers. Tables such as those in section 3.3.2 are already out of date because things have been added since RFC 4306. I propose that we remove all these

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-23 Thread Dan McDonald
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:37:32PM -0500, Dan McDonald wrote: SNIP! The warning and URL is the critical part. are the critical part, - uggh, mustn't press Send so quickly. Dan ___ IPsec mailing list IPsec@ietf.org

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-23 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 8:37 PM -0500 11/23/09, Dan McDonald wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:27:36PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: Can you move 'em to an appendix, with a permanent URL reference to the IANA up-to-date versions? As long as you mean an appendix that clearly says 'these were in RFC 4306 but are now

Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis

2009-11-23 Thread Yaron Sheffer
, Yaron -Original Message- From: ipsec-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipsec-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Steven Bellovin Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:20 To: Paul Hoffman Cc: ipsec@ietf.org; Dan McDonald Subject: Re: [IPsec] #123: Proposal to remove the IANA tables from IKEv2bis