Issue 61 (was: Comments of draft-ietf-mobike-protocol-04.txt)

Jari Arkko <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.mobike
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tero,

>Perhaps the section 5.1 should say "There is no data associated with
>this Notify type, and the when processing Notify received from the
>other end the notify data MUST be ignored." Then we can later add some
>data there and old version will ignore it. That will allow us
>possibility to extend this payload later. With the current text
>implementations can simply fail the whole IKE SA negotiation if there
>is data in the this notify. (or if you consider this to be too close
>to the already covered no-version-numbers case, then feel free to
>ignore this comment).
>  
>
I don't want to re-open the old issue. But this approach
to specifying processing of payloads is in general
what I want to see in any payload, its simply makes
sense from an extensibility point of view.

So I'd like to see Tero's proposal adopted.

--Jari
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