RE: New Technical Issues RE: WG last call in progress on VLAN/Priority Draft

["Avi Lior" <avi@bridgewatersystems.com>]

Alan,

You said this:

>   I'm not sure how you conclude that I'm trying to forbid 
> complex attributes.  

And you also said this: right?
> > >   If the content of an attribute is a complex structure as 
> > > determined by the application, I would *prefer* that the 
> structure 
> > > is defined elsewhere, and the RADIUS docs simply reference it.

Defined elsewhere means to me its forbiden in RADIUS.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: aland@nitros9.org [mailto:aland@nitros9.org] On Behalf 
> Of Alan DeKok
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:54 PM
> To: Avi Lior
> Cc: radiusext@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: New Technical Issues RE: WG last call in 
> progress on VLAN/Priority Draft
> 
> "Avi Lior" <avi@bridgewatersystems.com> wrote:
> > >   If the content of an attribute is a complex structure as 
> > > determined by the application, I would *prefer* that the 
> structure 
> > > is defined elsewhere, and the RADIUS docs simply reference it.
> > 
> > I don't agree.  Why should that be?
> 
>   RFC 3576
> ...
> 3.1.  EAP-Message
> 
>    Description
> 
>       This attribute encapsulates EAP [RFC2284] ...
> 
>   Instead of having a normitive reference, let's cut & paste 
> big chunks of ASCII art from RFC 2284 here.
> 
>   Oh, wait...
> 
> > Again,  what you are saying if it doesn't fit into my 
> dictionary then 
> > I don't think its RADIUS.
> 
>   I'm pretty clear that that's *not* what I'm saying.  I've 
> been trying to convince you of this, but for some reason I'm 
> not succeeding.
> 
>   I'm not sure how you conclude that I'm trying to forbid 
> complex attributes.  Perhaps I should stop protesting, and 
> just let you believe what you want about my opinions.  But 
> *please* don't claim publicly I'm trying to forbid complex 
> attributes.  That is demonstratably not true.  Just read my messages.
> 
>   Alan DeKok.
> 

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