Do we actually need dynamic ports?

[Paul Hoffman / VPNC <paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxx>]

At 10:47 AM -0800 3/26/02, Jan Vilhuber wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, sankar ramamoorthi wrote:
>  > Are dynamic protocols a requirement for ikev2?
> >  There have no comments to that regard.
>
> That's true. I think they are/should be. I'll ask Cheryl to add this
> to the requirements document.

Why is this a requirement? Has the lack of dynamic ports 
significantly hurt IKEv1? If so, what other protocol did the folks 
who required dynamic ports use?

This sounds a lot like a rat-hole that will have next to no chance of 
interoperating and will not help many users.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium