Re: racoon2 release

Shoichi Sakane <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:23:31 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.kink
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi, Ken.

You are right.  I only sent the README in the release to the racoon2
mailing list.  it described the draft version kink-06, but it did not
describe our plan related to developing KINK daemon.  i will add it
to the next release.  thank you.

> On Jan 27, 2005, at 22:40, Shoichi Sakane wrote:
> > We have removed our IKEv2 code from the release because we have an IPR
> > issue related to IKEv2.  We will release it after the issue will
> > be solved.  KINK is only supported in the release currently.
> 
> I may be being overly picky, but: KINK isn't finalized.  KINK would 
> presumably be the name of the final version of the protocol.  So it 
> wouldn't be correct to say that it supports KINK, but instead you 
> should indicate that it supports a specific draft.  And I expect that 
> the final version will not be 100% compatible with the current draft 
> (if only in the handling of some of the crypto aspects I've complained 
> about), so it would make sense to advise users of that fact as well, 
> and plan for either an incompatible change down the road, or support 
> for both draft and final versions in some future release.
> 
> That said, I think it's great that you're doing this.  Thank you!
> 
> Ken
>