AW: new revision of the NAI RFC

["Beck01, Wolfgang" <BeckW@t-systems.com>]

> > Wolfgang wrote:
> > nai         = username / ( username "@" realm ) / ( "@" realm" )
> [..]
> > NAIs are often transported in the User-Name attribute of RADIUS[10].
> 
> ..another example of a sub-attribute :-)

Dave wrote:
> Well, here's an even sillier "example"...

> Integer :== millions-part "," thousands-part "," hundreds-part ","
> units-part

> e.g. 1,000,000,000
> That makes integers sub-attributes, right?  :-)
In a way, yes. You are just using a positional syntax instead of TLV.
Your syntax has the same difficulties as sub-attributes. You can't
associate only a 'millions-part' with a user in the RADIUS database.
You have to specify the whole Integer. You are "tunneling" an
un-interpreted integer through RADIUS to some higher layer protocol
(eg. an accounting application).


Wolfgang

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