The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Minimal IKEv2 Initiator Implementation' (draft-ietf-lwig-ikev2-minimal-05.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Light-Weight Implementation Guidance Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Brian Haberman and Terry Manderson. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lwig-ikev2-minimal/ Technical Summary: The document describes a minimal profile of the Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) protocol. IKEv2 includes several optional features, which are not needed in minimal implementations. The document describes what is required from a minimal implementation and also describes various optimizations which can be done. Working Group Summary: There was nothing noteworthy in the WG process. Document Quality: The author and another party have independently produced prototype code according to the document (see https://www.iab.org/wp-content/IAB-uploads/2011/04/Kivinen.pdf). There are no reviewers worth a special mention. Personnel: The Document Shepherd is Robert Cragie. The Responsible Area Director is Brian Haberman.