The following errata report has been submitted for RFC8229, "TCP Encapsulation of IKE and IPsec Packets".
-------------------------------------- You may review the report below and at: http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5320 -------------------------------------- Type: Technical Reported by: Valery Smyslov <val...@smyslov.net> Section: GLOBAL Original Text ------------- Corrected Text -------------- TCP provides reliable transport, so there is no need for applications to deal with retransmissions. Moreover, sending retransmissions by IKE in case of TCP on congested networks could further increase congestion and degrade performance. For this reason IKE initiators SHOULD NOT retransmit requests if they are sent over TCP. However, both IKE initiators and responders MUST correctly handle retransmitted messages received over TCP, but responders SHOULD NOT resend response messages in this case. If IKE initiators still choose to retransmit requests over TCP, then the retransmission policy SHOULD be less aggressive than it would have been in case of UDP. Notes ----- While Section 12.2 discusses some implications that TCP transport could have on ESP protocol, the IKE retransmission behavior, described in Section 2.1 of RFC7296, is not redefined by this RFC. This is an oversight and some recommendations for implementers should have been given. The suggested text should be placed in a new section, presumably between sections 8 and 9. Instructions: ------------- This erratum is currently posted as "Reported". If necessary, please use "Reply All" to discuss whether it should be verified or rejected. When a decision is reached, the verifying party can log in to change the status and edit the report, if necessary. -------------------------------------- RFC8229 (draft-ietf-ipsecme-tcp-encaps-10) -------------------------------------- Title : TCP Encapsulation of IKE and IPsec Packets Publication Date : August 2017 Author(s) : T. Pauly, S. Touati, R. Mantha Category : PROPOSED STANDARD Source : IP Security Maintenance and Extensions Area : Security Stream : IETF Verifying Party : IESG _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list IPsec@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec
