RE: DISCUSS: draft-ietf-radext-filter

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

Nelson, David <> supposedly scribbled on Wednesday, January 10, 2007
1:37 PM:

> As the PROTO Document Shepherd on this draft, it's my job to
> facilitate IESG issue resolution.  Please take a moment to review the
> DISCUSS issue resolution described here.  If you think this is OK,
> please reply to the list.  

Looks fine to me.

> If you think there is a better resolution
> please provide alternate text.    
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Dave Nelson
> 
>> Here is a proposed resolution to the IESG DISCUSS comment provided
>> below: 
>> 
>> In Section 4, change:
>> 
>> "   Note that a translated Diameter message can be larger than the
>>    maximum RADIUS packet size (4096).  Where a Diameter/RADIUS
>>    gateway receives a Diameter message containing a NAS-Filter-Rule
>>    AVP that is too large to fit into a RADIUS packet, the
>>    Diameter/RADIUS gateway will respond to the originating Diameter
>>    peer with the DIAMETER_INVALID_AVP_LENGTH error (5014), and with
>>    a Failed-AVP AVP containing the NAS-Filter-Rule AVP.  Since
>>    repairing the error will probably require re-working the filter
>>    rules, the originating peer should treat the combination of a
>>    DIAMETER_INVALID_AVP_LENGTH error and a Failed-AVP AVP containing
>> a NAS-Filter-Rule AVP as a terminal    error." 
>> 
>> To:
>> 
>> "  Note that a translated Diameter message can be larger than the
>>    maximum RADIUS packet size (4096).  Where a Diameter/RADIUS
>>    gateway receives a Diameter message containing a NAS-Filter-Rule
>>    AVP that is too large to fit into a RADIUS packet, the
>>    Diameter/RADIUS gateway will respond to the originating Diameter
>> peer with a Result-Code AVP with the value
>>    DIAMETER_RADIUS_AVP_UNTRANSLATABLE (TBD), and with a Failed-AVP
>>    AVP containing the NAS-Filter-Rule AVP.  Since repairing the
>>    error will probably require re-working the filter rules, the
>>    originating peer should treat the combination of a Result-Code
>>    AVP with value DIAMETER_RADIUS_AVP_UNTRANSLATABLE
>>    and a Failed-AVP AVP containing a NAS-Filter-Rule AVP as a
>> terminal    error." 
>> 
>> In Section 5, add the following paragraph:
>> 
>> "This document also utilizes the Diameter [RFC3588] namespace.
>> Allocation of a Diameter Result-Code AVP value for
>> theDIAMETER_RADIUS_AVP_UNTRANSLATABLE error is requested.  Since
>> this is a permanent failure, an allocation should be provided in the
>> 5xxx range. " 

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