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Re: WG Last call: draft-ietf-ipsec-isakmp-gss-auth-05.txt



At 05:57 PM 3/30/00 -0800, Sheela Rowles wrote:
My understanding is that the isakmp-gss draft is an informational draft,
that basically documents one vendor's implementation (Microsoft).
As it turns out, we are also implementing the draft (we = Cisco),
and so wondered if this should be considered as a future RFC rather
than an informational draft.   Is there anyone else out there
who plans to implement this?
The fact that more than one company is implementing from the draft is not the deciding factor for whether it should go on standards track. If the spec is not open to change (such as if it is a description of how the originating company implemented the protocol), it should be an Informational RFC. If the spec is open for change and better design, it might be appropriate on standards track.

In any case, since this is an informational draft (documenting
Microsoft's work in this area, the draft needs to be modified
to reflect some differences between the draft and Microsoft's
current implementation:
Exactly right. Anything in the spec that doesn't match Microsoft's implementation should be fixed during this last-call phase.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium