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Re: [IPsec] P2P VPN draft UNCLASSIFIED

From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman_at_nospam>
Date: Wed Mar 14 2012 - 19:20:13 GMT
To: IPsecme WG <ipsec@ietf.org>

On Mar 14, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:

> Guess that's what I get for not fully reading the doument yet.

A note to everyone: reading the document sooner rather than later will help make our hour in Paris much more useful.

> I assumed
> "P2P" actually meant "peer to peer" which kinda assumes unknown peers
> and on the fly configuration.

The term "peer" means no such thing. It means "two parties who communicate without there being a client-server relationship". There are numerous other IETF protocols that use "peer" in this context.

--Paul Hoffman

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