Re: "connection latching" -- comments on rfc2401bis (draft-ietf-ipsec-rfc2401bis-04.txt)]

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On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:56:09AM -0800, Joe Touch wrote:
> There's nothing in IPsec that knows about TCP connections now, and there
> shouldn't be.
> 
> There might be utility to coordinating TCP with IKE, but that means that
> the SA used by a packet needs to be set explicitly by the upper layer
> rather inferring it from policy rules.
> 
> I.e., TCP may need to know about IPsec, not the other way around.

Connection latching should, indeed, be initiated by TCP -- but that does
not mean the matter shouldn't be mentioned in the IPsec architecture
doc.

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