Vijar Devarapalli wrote: >Hi Yoav, > >On 7/29/09 9:13 PM, "Yoav Nir" wrote: > >> Hi Vijay. >> >> "default" is usually associated with a particular implementation or >> product. I think it would be better to say "suggested value" rather >> than "default value". > > "default value" is the right terminology to use here.
Disagree. A default is what you get in a particular implementation if you don't change it. For example, IKE SA default lifetimes are 2 hours in Check Point products, and 8 hours in Microsoft products. A standard cannot have a default. >> Also, I don't see a point in mandating that all products should have an >> extra knob for setting this value. For example, for an IKEv2 client you >> usually try to have as little local configuration as possible, so this >> value may very well be hard coded. >> >> The suggested value for MAX_REDIRECTS configuration >> variable is 5. The suggested value for REDIRECT_LOOP_DETECT_PERIOD >> configuration variable is 300 seconds. These values MAY be >> configurable on the client. > >If you want to change it "MAY", you might as well say nothing about it. A >sentence that says "These values MAY be configurable on the client" doesn't >say much. I would be fine with "SHOULD" instead of "MUST". Disagree again. No client will have this configuration, because clients are made to be used by non-technical people. Clients that are centrally-configured may have such a setting, but we can't put that in a MUST, or even a SHOULD. > >Vijay Email secured by Check Point _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list IPsec@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec
