At 7:16 PM +0300 5/31/09, Yaron Sheffer wrote:
> > 6) Section 6: The word "Unspecified" is probably wrong here -- this
>> document has to specify these (but clearly an implementation doesn't
>> have to include in the ticket any data it never uses).
>>
>[YS] I have used "unspecified" as synonymous with "implementation specific".
>Or do you want to propose alternative text?

FWIW, I think "implementation-specific" is probably right here.

> > 8) The text about handling IDr is very unclear -- certainly the
>> gateway can't start to use some other IDr in the new IKE_SA,
>> without authenticating it?
>>
>[YS] Unfortunately you are right, but this eliminates important flexibility
>in naming the gateways. We *could* say that the client trusts the gateway to
>identify itself, because the gateway is clearly a member of the "trusted
>gateways" group (it is able to decrypt the ticket). But that still sounds
>wrong.

Being a member of the "trusted gateways" group doesn't sound wrong to me: in 
fact, it sounds like the correct way to say it. If that group has just one 
member, so be it.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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