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WoW
lots of discussion on this issue.
So
it was an oversight. If someone would have reminded us about 3580 then we
would have just adopted that.
Since we didnt. It seems to me that a binary representation would
be a more appropriate treatment for this value. The human presentation of
the MAC address is just that for humans and RADIUS couldnt give care.
Besides, the presentation of the MAC address has more then one format - one
using ":" and one using "-". So it is best to leave the
presentation to a presentation layer and not the RADIUS
layer.
So
3580 IMO got it wrong. But as I said if one of you brought that up to
our attention we would have fixed it to match 3580.
Which brings me to another point. It isn't
busted. And changing it now will break backwards compatibility. And breaking backwards compatibility is
being viewed as a very bad thing.
Actually if we want to open this up again, the I
propose getting rid of the MAC address or encrypting it since it violates
one of the WiMAX and of the IETF tenents which is identity hidding. We
have the means to hide the user's identity but yet the MAC address is
exposed.
True
mobility and roaming…
OK,
I give: how does representing a MAC address is binary vs. ASCII enhance
mobility or roaming?
From:
owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org] On
Behalf Of Matt Holdrege
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:44
AM
To: Bernard Aboba; Congdon, Paul T (ProCurve); Mike Bean; David
Nelson; radiusext@ops.ietf.org; Dan Romascanu
Subject: RE: RADIUS
Calling-Station-Id for WiMAX
I
don’t see any reason why RADIUS should differentiate between 802.16 and 802.11
or any other 802.
-Matt
From:
owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org] On
Behalf Of Bernard Aboba
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008
12:40 AM
To: Congdon, Paul T (ProCurve); Mike Bean; David Nelson;
radiusext@ops.ietf.org; Dan Romascanu
Subject: RADIUS
Calling-Station-Id for WiMAX
Some questions
have arisen about the format of the Calling-Station-Id Attribute when used
with WiMAX.
Since WiMAX is based on IEEE 802.16, and RFC 3580 applies
to IEEE 802 technology, it would seem that the RFC 3580 Calling-Station-Id
definition would apply to WiMAX.
Are there reasons why this
would not be the case?
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