At 2:21 PM -0800 12/16/09, Paul Hoffman wrote: >Section 1.7 (Differences Between RFC 4306 and This Document) states: > > The protocol described in this document retains the same major > version number (2) and minor version number (0) as was used in RFC > 4306. That is, the version number is *not* changed from RFC 4306. > >Section 2.5 (Version Numbers and Forward Compatibility) states > > The minor > version number indicates new capabilities, and MUST be ignored by a > node with a smaller minor version number, but used for informational > purposes by the node with the larger minor version number. For > example, it might indicate the ability to process a newly defined > notification message. The node with the larger minor version number > would simply note that its correspondent would not be able to > understand that message and therefore would not send it. > >New notifies have been added to the bis draft. Is a bump in the minor >number warranted? Is there a down side to bumping the minor number?
I take the discussion as deciding not to bump the minor version number. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list IPsec@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec
