At 2:29 PM -0800 12/16/09, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>Section 2.8.2 Simultaneous IKE SA Rekeying states:
>
>   If only one peer detects a simultaneous rekey, redundant SAs
>   are not created.  In this case, when the peer that did not notice the
>   simultaneous rekey gets the request to rekey the IKE SA that it has
>   already successfully rekeyed, it MUST return TEMPORARY_FAILURE
>   because it is an IKE SA that it is currently trying to close (whether
>   or not it has already sent the delete notification for the SA).
>
>Section 2.25.2 (Collisions While Rekeying or Closing IKE SAs) states:
>
>   If a peer receives a request to close an IKE SA that it is
>   currently trying to close, it SHOULD reply as usual, and forget about
>   its own close request.
>
>Based on the text in Section 2.25.2 it seems that perhaps the MUST in
>Section 2.8.2 is really a SHOULD. Or, based on the text in 2.8.2, the
>SHOULD in 2.25.2 should be a MUST.

This got no response; does anyone have an opinion?

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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