At 7:36 PM +0300 7/1/09, Yaron Sheffer wrote:
>I'd like to propose:
>
>   1.  Introduction
>     1.1.  Usage Scenarios
>       1.1.1.  Security Gateway to Security Gateway Tunnel Mode
>       1.1.2.  Endpoint-to-Endpoint Transport Mode
>       1.1.3.  Endpoint to Security Gateway Tunnel Mode
>       1.1.4.  Other Scenarios
>     1.2.  Requirements Terminology
>
>   2.  IKE Protocol Overview (or "Essentials") [today's Sec. 1.2-1.5]
>     2.1.  The Initial Exchanges
>     2.2.  The CREATE_CHILD_SA Exchange
>       2.2.1.  Creating New Child SAs with the CREATE_CHILD_SA
>               Exchange
>       2.2.2.  Rekeying IKE SAs with the CREATE_CHILD_SA Exchange
>       2.2.3.  Rekeying Child SAs with the CREATE_CHILD_SA
>               Exchange
>     2.3.  The INFORMATIONAL Exchange
>       2.3.1.  Deleting an SA with INFORMATIONAL Exchanges
>     2.4.  Informational Messages outside of an IKE SA
>
>   3.  IKE Protocol Details and Variations [today's Sec. 2]
>
>   Appendix X: Differences Between RFC 4306 and This Document [today's Sec.
>1.7]

A different idea is to simply rename Section 1 "IKE Protocol Overview", and 
move the requirements terminology (which is, in essence, boilerplate that most 
people ignore anyway) and the differences to appendixes.

>Do you see value in this, or do you prefer keeping the existing order?

I see only minor value to the original proposal, and a high cost to me (the 
editor). I think my alternate proposal isn't so onerous, but am happy to follow 
Yaron's proposal if people really like it.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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