RE: RADEXT Issue 255 (NAS Management Authorization)

["Glen Zorn" <glenzorn@comcast.net>]

David B. Nelson <mailto://dnelson@elbrysnetworks.com> writes:

> > 8.1 (and elsewhere)
> > Shouldn't Framed-Management-Protocol "Web-based" (2) be HTTP or
> > HTML/HTTP?
> 
> The attribute in question, Framed-Management-Protocol, is used to
> describe a
> management *application-layer* protocol.  SNMP clearly qualifies.  An
> integrated web server, providing management via web pages, also
> qualifies,

It's not at all clear to me that "Web services" qualifies as any type of
protocol at all.  W3C defines a "Web service" as ""a software system
designed to support interoperable Machine to Machine interaction over a
network."  Certainly, this definition requires the operation of one or more
network protocols but there is no requirement that HTTP be one of them.  I
think that the Attribute needs to be renamed -- maybe
"Framed-Management-Method"?

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