Subject: Document Action: 'Minimal IKEv2 Initiator Implementation' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-lwig-ikev2-minimal-05.txt)

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 07:46:09 -0800

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Minimal IKEv2 Initiator Implementation'
  (draft-ietf-lwig-ikev2-minimal-05.txt) as Informational RFC

This document is the product of the Light-Weight Implementation Guidance
Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Brian Haberman and Terry Manderson.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lwig-ikev2-minimal/

Technical Summary:

The document describes a minimal profile of the Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) protocol.  IKEv2 includes several optional features, which are not needed in minimal implementations.  The document describes what is required from a minimal implementation and also describes various optimizations which can be done.

Working Group Summary:

There was nothing noteworthy in the WG process.

Document Quality:

The author and another party have independently produced prototype code according to the document (see https://www.iab.org/wp-content/IAB-uploads/2011/04/Kivinen.pdf). There are no reviewers worth a special mention.

Personnel:

The Document Shepherd is Robert Cragie. The Responsible Area Director is Brian Haberman.