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RE: Serious error in RFC4590

I agree that we need to get the IANA web pages corrected and also need to submit an errata to the RFC Editor.
However, I'm concerned that even with these measures, there is the potential for confusion to linger. As I recall, the original RADIUS RFCs had to be re-issued to fix a port allocation problem. 

I'm wondering what the WG thinks we should do in this situation.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:21:55 +0200
From: "Beck01, Wolfgang" <BeckW@t-systems.com>
To: Alexander.Schrab@axis.com, baruch@kayote.com, dscreat@dscreat.com,
    david@kayote.com, dwilli@cisco.com
Cc: dnelson@enterasys.com, aboba@internaut.com
Subject: AW: Serious error in RFC4590

Alexander

> In table 2 the Digest-Nextnonce and Digest-Response-Auth are
> numbered 106 and 107. But furthur down they are numbered in
> reverse order.
This is ugly. The numbering is consistent in the main text
and in the attributes table. The exception is section 7, IANA
considerations. It's wrong in the IANA registry www.iana.org
as well.

Not an excuse, but an explanation: the IANA section is inserted
at the end of the standardization process. It did not get the
same attention and review time as the rest of the text.

> If you already know about this problem I am sorry for
> spamming you. But I feel it is important that this error
> doesn't sneek it's way into implementations...

Hopefully, the implementors will stick to the text and to the
attribute table in section 5.

I've cc'ed this mail to the chairs of the RADEXT WG. We should
correct the IANA registry entries and issue an errata.

106 is Digest-Response-Auth
107 is Digest-Nextnonce

Wolfgang

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