RE: RADIUS Calling-Station-Id for WiMAX

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

> That is why I stated that it is best to keep the format in RADIUS in its
> lowest common form (binary) and do the conversion to a particular format
> at the last moment.  It is less error prone - as you can see by all of
> these exchanges.

Well, "late binding" may be a good software design paradigm, but RADIUS only
specifies what goes into the PDUs on-the-wire.  Any other formats and
encodings used internally to the software and/or databases are a matter of
implementation, not a matter of standardization.

The issue at hand is whether RFC 3580 created a "standard" for the
on-the-wire encoding format of the Calling-Station-Id Attribute, and whether
or not it matters that WiMAX adopted a different on-the-wire encoding.

All the rest is positioning in defense of one fielded implementation or the
other.



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