Subject: Document Action: 'A Traffic-Based Method of Detecting Dead IKE Peers' to Informational RFC

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:42:53 -0500

The IESG has approved following document:

- 'A Traffic-Based Method of Detecting Dead IKE Peers '
   <draft-ietf-ipsec-dpd-04.txt> as an Informational RFC

This document is the product of the IP Security Protocol Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Russ Housley and Steve Bellovin.

Technical Summary

  This draft describes a method of detecting a dead IKE (Internet Key
  Exchange) peer.  The method, called Dead Peer Detection (DPD), uses
  IPsec traffic patterns to limit the number of IKE messages sent.  DPD,
  like other keepalive mechanisms, is often necessary to perform IKE
  peer failover, or to reclaim lost resources.

Working Group Summary

  The IPsec Working Group came to consensus on this document.

Protocol Quality

  This document was reviewed by Russell Housley for the IESG.