Re-,

Please see inline.

Cheers,
Med

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Paul Wouters [mailto:[email protected]]
> Envoyé : mardi 30 avril 2019 15:40
> À : BOUCADAIR Mohamed TGI/OLN
> Cc : [email protected]
> Objet : RE: [IPsec] Draft-ietf-ipsecme-ipv6-ipv4-codes
> 
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2019, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > The responder does not know if the initiator is dual-stack or not. For
> example, an initiator can be instructed by policy to make use of separate
> requests.
> 
> Why would the initiator that is allowed by policy to do both v4 and v6
> not ask for both at once?

[Med] I do fully agree that requesting both when supported would be 
straightforward, but I'm afraid that some implementations may not follow that 
behavior. Such implementations may do that:
* for arbitrary reasons given that existing specs do not forbid such separate 
requests.
* or, in some contexts such cellular devices, mimic a similar behavior for 
requesting separate PDP contexts instead of a dual-stack one.

FWIW, this is exactly why we use this wording in the draft: 

   If the initiator is dual-stack, it MUST include both address families
   in its request (absent explicit policy/configuration otherwise).

> 
> I don't see the "use of separate requests" as a real use case. Can you
> explain how this would actually happen in a real world?

[Med] See the cases above. There is also the case of a responder that wants 
(for policy reasons) requests to be made as separate IKE SAs. For this case, 
requests will need to be done separately.  

> 
> Paul

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