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RE: request to recharter



I'm not in favor of taking RADSEC on as a working group item without a
better understanding of the goals.  There is more to RADSEC then just
TCP transport and algorithmic agility.  I think it would be appropriate
to have a BOF to understand that scope of what RADSEC is trying to
achieve. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Bernard Aboba
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:25 PM
> To: Alan DeKok
> Cc: Stefan Winter; radiusext@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: request to recharter
> 
> >  The "RADIUS over TCP" document could reference existing RADIUS 
> > practices, and explain in excruciating detail why they 
> won't work for TCP.
> >
> >  Also, some issues relating to RADIUS PDU's over a stream transport 
> > may be discussed.  e.g. receiving half a RADIUS packet and 
> then a FIN 
> > is
> > *not* a problem.
> >
> > The MIB counters for
> > radiusAuthServMalformedAccessRequests should NOT be 
> incremented.  e.g.
> > receiving a PDU with malformed attributes means that the TCP 
> > connection SHOULD be closed.
> >
> >  Many RADIUS practices related to handling error cases 
> require a PDU 
> > to be "silently discarded".  This won't work for TCP.  The 
> connection 
> > has to be closed, too.
> >
> > The existing RFC's have to be audited, and a new document 
> issued which 
> > explains the correct behavior.
> 
> This sounds like an outline of the issues that need to be 
> handled in the RADSEC specification.
> Regardless of whether the RADEXT WG ends up adding the RADSEC 
> work to the Charter, it would be useful to include this 
> material in the document. 
> 
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