All,

We have now received all necessary approvals and consider AUTH48 complete:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/auth48/rfc9867

Thank you for your attention and guidance during the AUTH48 process.

We will move this document forward in the publication process at this time 
(with RFC-to-be 9838: draft-ietf-ipsecme-g-ikev2-23).

Sincerely,
Sarah Tarrant
RFC Production Center

> On Sep 24, 2025, at 10:23 AM, Valery Smyslov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Sarah,
> 
> I see no more issues, thus I approve the publication.
> 
> Thank you for your work.
> 
> Regards,
> Valery.
> 
>> Hi Valery,
>> 
>> My apologies! Thank you for catching that.
>> 
>> The updated files have been posted here (please refresh):
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>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9867.pdf
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>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9867.xml
>> 
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>> 
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>> For the AUTH48 status of this document, please see:
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>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Sarah Tarrant
>> RFC Production Center
>> 
>>> On Sep 24, 2025, at 9:40 AM, Valery Smyslov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Sarah,
>>> 
>>> thank you for the update.
>>> 
>>>> Hi Valery,
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you for your reply. All 3 of your updates have been incorporated, as 
>>>> they were all quite reasonable and
>>>> correct. Articles are quite tricky!
>>> 
>>> Oh, indeed...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The last (hopefully) remaining issue - while addressing the first update 
>>> from the last message
>>> you accidentally deleted the sentence "This specification does not define 
>>> any data that this notification
>>> may contain, so the Notification Data is left empty." (Section 3.1):
>>> 
>>> CURRENT:
>>>  The USE_PPK_INT is a Status Type IKEv2 notification.  Its Notify
>>>  Message Type is 16445; the Protocol ID is set to 0; the Security
>>>  Parameter Index (SPI) is absent, so the SPI Size is set to 0 too.
>>>  However, future extensions of this specification may make use of it.
>>>  Implementations MUST ignore any data in the notification that they do
>>>  not understand.
>>> 
>>> Please, get it back :-)
>>> 
>>> NEW (also partially OLD :-)):
>>>  The USE_PPK_INT is a Status Type IKEv2 notification.  Its Notify
>>>  Message Type is 16445; the Protocol ID is set to 0; the Security
>>>  Parameter Index (SPI) is absent, so the SPI Size is set to 0 too.
>>>  This specification does not define any data that this notification
>>>  may contain, so the Notification Data is left empty.
>>>  However, future extensions of this specification may make use of it.
>>>  Implementations MUST ignore any data in the notification that they do
>>>  not understand.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Valery.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> The updated files have been posted here (please refresh):
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>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9867.pdf
>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9867.html
>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9867.xml
>>>> 
>>>> The relevant diff files have been posted here (please refresh):
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>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9867-auth48diff.html (AUTH48 changes 
>>>> only)
>>>> 
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>>>> For the AUTH48 status of this document, please see:
>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/auth48/rfc9867
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Sarah Tarrant
>>>> RFC Production Center
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 24, 2025, at 2:53 AM, Valery Smyslov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Sarah,
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Valery,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The double "with" doesn't ring any editorial alarm bells for me, so I 
>>>>>> updated to "If the responder is configured
>>>> with a
>>>>>> PPK with an ID".
>>>>> 
>>>>> Fine!
>>>>> 
>>>>>> And we will make a note about this draft and 
>>>>>> draft-ietf-ipsecme-g-ikev2-23 being published together, with
>> each
>>>>>> others' RFC numbers. That shouldn't need a cluster construction.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Excellent, thank you!
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Please review the document carefully to ensure satisfaction as we do not 
>>>>>> make changes once it has been
>>>>>> published as an RFC. Contact us with any further updates or with your 
>>>>>> approval of the document in its
>> current
>>>>>> form.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I re-read the document and I found a couple of issues.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1) You expanded "SPI" on first use in the following text (Section 3.1).
>>>>> 
>>>>> CURRENT:
>>>>> The USE_PPK_INT is a Status Type IKEv2 notification.  Its Notify
>>>>> Message Type is 16445; the Protocol ID and Security Parameter Index
>>>>> (SPI) Size are both set to 0.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The problem with this is that "SPI Size" is the name of the field in the 
>>>>> Notify payload
>>>>> (defined in Section 3.10 of RFC 7296), thus this expansion makes the text 
>>>>> incorrect.
>>>>> I propose the following change:
>>>>> 
>>>>> NEW:
>>>>> The USE_PPK_INT is a Status Type IKEv2 notification.  Its Notify
>>>>> Message Type is 16445; the Protocol ID is set to 0; the Security 
>>>>> Parameter Index
>>>>> (SPI) is absent, so the SPI Size is set to 0 too.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2) Later in the same section (3.1).
>>>>> 
>>>>> CURRENT:
>>>>> The PPK_IDENTITY_KEY is a Status Type IKEv2 notification.  Its Notify
>>>>> Message Type is 16446; the Protocol ID and SPI Size fields are both
>>>>> set to 0.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Since SPI Size is the name of the field, should not it be prepended with 
>>>>> "the"?
>>>>> Please disregard if this is not needed.
>>>>> 
>>>>> NEW (perhaps):
>>>>> The PPK_IDENTITY_KEY is a Status Type IKEv2 notification.  Its Notify
>>>>> Message Type is 16446; the Protocol ID and the SPI Size fields are both
>>>>> set to 0.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 3) Very minor issue (or perhaps not an issue at all). Comparing the 
>>>>> following pieces of text:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1.  If the responder is configured with a PPK with an ID that is...
>>>>> 
>>>>> If the responder does not support (or is not configured for) using
>>>>> PPKs in the CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange or does not have a PPK with an
>>>>> ID that matches...
>>>>> 
>>>>> If using PPKs in CREATE_CHILD_SA is mandatory for the responder, and
>>>>> the initiator does not include any PPK_IDENTITY_KEY notifications in
>>>>> the request, or if the responder does not have a PPK with an ID that
>>>>> matches...
>>>>> 
>>>>> with this piece of text:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2.  If the responder does not have a PPK with ID that matches...
>>>>> 
>>>>> I noticed that the former three use "a PPK with an ID"
>>>>> and the latter uses "a PPK with ID" (no article in front of ID).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is this distinction correct? Should not all the instances be the same
>>>>> (either with or without "an")? Sorry, using articles has been always a 
>>>>> bit of problem for me :-).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Valery.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> The updated files have been posted here (please refresh):
>>>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9867.txt
>>>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9867.pdf
>>>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9867.html
>>>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9867.xml
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The relevant diff files have been posted here (please refresh):
>>>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9867-diff.html (comprehensive diff)
>>>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9867-auth48diff.html (AUTH48 
>>>>>> changes only)
>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> the most recent version.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> For the AUTH48 status of this document, please see:
>>>>>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/auth48/rfc9867
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>> Sarah Tarrant
>>>>>> RFC Production Center
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Sep 23, 2025, at 9:27 AM, Valery Smyslov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> If the responder is configured with a PPK
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
> 

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