A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. STD 79 RFC 7296 Title: Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2) Author: C. Kaufman, P. Hoffman, Y. Nir, P. Eronen, T. Kivinen Status: Standards Track Stream: IETF Date: October 2014 Mailbox: charliekaufman@outlook.com, paul.hoffman@vpnc.org, nir.ietf@gmail.com, pe@iki.fi, kivinen@iki.fi Pages: 142 Characters: 354358 Obsoletes: RFC 5996 See Also: STD 79 I-D Tag: draft-kivinen-ipsecme-ikev2-rfc5996bis-04.txt URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7296.txt This document describes version 2 of the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol. IKE is a component of IPsec used for performing mutual authentication and establishing and maintaining Security Associations (SAs). This document obsoletes RFC 5996, and includes all of the errata for it. It advances IKEv2 to be an Internet Standard. This document is a product of the IP Security Maintenance and Extensions Working Group of the IETF. This is now an Internet Standard. STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet Standards Track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the Official Internet Protocol Standards (https://www.rfc-editor.org/standards) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce https://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/search For downloading RFCs, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC