RE: Meaning of "backward compatible" WAS RE: Consensus Call on RADEXT WG re-charter

["David B. Nelson" <dnelson@elbrysnetworks.com>]

Matt Holdrege writes...

> RADIUS has always used UDP and perhaps a lot of developers have 
> counted on that and never developed their products to be socket
> layer neutral.

This is quite possible.

> Not to mention that a firmware change of clients is not really 
> an option in most cases.

My personal (individual WG member) opinion is that the RADSEC work is
interesting for proxy-to-proxy and proxy-to-home-server usages.  I think
that it would be fairly rare to see it in NAS-to-server or NAS-to-proxy
cases.  That takes most of the "sting" out of the "wedded-to-UDP" issues
with NAS-based client implementations.  I think of proxies as being a server
and client glued together, BTW.



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