RE: Define some new NAS-Port-Type

["Glen Zorn \(gwz\)" <gwz@cisco.com>]

Congdon, Paul T (ProCurve) <> supposedly scribbled:

> People do use RADIUS to authenticate infrastructure devices as well

True, but the conjunction of the terms "infrastructure" & "Personal Area Network" has me confused.  Would you mind elaborating?

> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org
>> [mailto:owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Bernard Aboba
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:30 PM
>> To: 'CTO YAN Renxiang'; dnelson@enterasys.com; radiusext@ops.ietf.org
>> Subject: RE: Define some new NAS-Port-Type
>> 
>> Typically a NAS-Port-Type value is only needed for access
>> technologies that may need to use RADIUS.  I don't think that
>> 802.15 fits into that category (though lots of other wireless
>> technologies do). 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org
>> [mailto:owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of CTO YAN Renxiang
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:13 PM
>> To: Bernard Aboba; dnelson@enterasys.com; radiusext@ops.ietf.org
>> Subject: re: Define some new NAS-Port-Type
>> 
>> Hi, David and Bernard,
>> 
>> Thanks for your comments.
>> 
>> I think stating as work in progress in Informative Reference is ok.
>> Many RFC documents are also written in this way, as follows,
>> 
>> 5.2 Informative References
>> 
>> [802.20]	Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (MBWA), IEEE
>> Standard, Work
>> in Progress.
>> 
>> [802.22]	Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRAN), IEEE
>> Standard, Work
>> in Progress.
>> 
>> How do you think about that?
>> 
>> BTW, do you think we need to define a NAS-Port-Type for 802.15
>> (WPAN) also? 
>> 
>> Renxiang
>> 
>> 
>>> -----原始邮件-----
>>> 发件人: Bernard Aboba [mailto:bernard_aboba@hotmail.com]
>>> 发送时间: 2006年8月2日 9:04
>>> 收件人: dnelson@enterasys.com; CTO YAN Renxiang; radiusext@ops.ietf.org
>>> 主题: RE: Define some new NAS-Port-Type
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I understand the
>>>> difficulty of referencing draft IEEE standards, so I'm not sure
>>>> exactly what to suggest as an alternative.
>>> 
>>> I think they can reference IEEE 802 work-in-progress as an
>>> Informative Reference. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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Hope this helps,

~gwz

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