Michael Richardson wrote:
> Yoav Nir wrote:
> > Hi Raj
> >  
> > Matt is correct. There is no way in IKEv2 to do a phase1-only 
> > exchange, and then wait for traffic to establish the child SAs.
> >  
> > While we do establish an IKE SA if the piggy-backed child SA failed 
> > for whatever reason (bad selectors, no proposal chosen), we don't 
> > allow for an IKE_AUTH exchange that is missing the child payloads.
> >  
> > An IKE_AUTH request without the TSi and TSr payloads is considered 
> > malformed, and so MUST NOT be processed. Instead, you should reply 
> > with INVALID_SYNTAX
> 
>    That really seems like a bug in the spec to me.
>    I know that in my code I don't get upset about such a 
> situation, as I have unit test cases that were written when I 
> didn't have child SA code at all.  I wonder how many 
> implementations really would get upset?

Mine wouldn't. But the spec is adamant. 

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