RFC 9478 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2023

Labeled IPsec Traffic Selector Support for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2

Overview

RFC 9478, “Labeled IPsec Traffic Selector Support for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2”, is a Proposed Standard document published in October 2023 by P. Wouters, S. Prasad. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document defines a new Traffic Selector Type (TS Type) for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol version 2 (IKEv2) to add support for negotiating Mandatory Access Control (MAC) security labels as a Traffic Selector of the Security Policy Database (SPD). Security Labels for IPsec are also known as "Labeled IPsec". The new TS Type, TS_SECLABEL, consists of a variable length opaque field that specifies the security label.

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