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RE: Issue: Attribute concatenation/splitting



Title: RE: Issue: Attribute concatenation/splitting

I meant Diameter AVPs in RADIUS (If that initiative is still underway).




-----Original Message-----
From: Barney Wolff [mailto:barney@databus.com]
Sent: Sat 7/8/2006 8:42 PM
To: Avi Lior
Cc: Pasi.Eronen@nokia.com; radiusext@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: Issue: Attribute concatenation/splitting

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:14:11PM -0400, Avi Lior wrote:
>
> If we want to solve fragmentation in general then inserting a value inside the attribute will not work.  I think we have to invent something in the header of the attribute.
>
> For example, if we were to use Diameter AVP in RADIUS we would add a new flag (where the 'M' 'V' flags are) to indicate that the value of this attribute spans the next attribute.
>
> Why don't we hold this work until we can agree on the Diameter AVP?

I certainly concur.  But using the Diameter AVP header makes the problem
go away, as Diameter AVPs are not limited to 253 bytes.

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