RE: Question on reliable transports

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

Bernard Aboba [mailto://bernard_aboba@hotmail.com] writes:

 

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> I've been working on the TCP && DTLS drafts, and have a few questions
> for a wider audience, especially those with experience deploying RadSec.
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> First, there appears to be a fair bit of overlap between the
> discussion of TCP as a reliable transport, and the reliable transport
> offered by DTLS.

I'm just trying to figure out what the "reliable transport offered by DTLS" might be.  AFAICT, RFC 4347 defines a kind of pseudo-reliability (including retransmission timers, buffering of out-of-order messages, etc.) for the DTLS handshake but not for records (which is presumably where the actual RADIUS messages would reside).

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