RE: philosophy of the Design Guidelines document

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

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

...

> > At least I am asking to capture these aspects in the draft as there
> are
> > really two types of complex attributes, namely those captured with
> the
> > RADIUS extended attributes draft and then more complex onces that can
> be
> > found also in the Diameter space. Reading through the draft one could
> easily
> > get the impression that that document now allows the Diameter AVP
> structure
> > to be easily supported, which is not true.
> 
> Discussion of Extended Attribute design is out of scope of the Design
> Guidelines
> document.  However, it *is* in scope for the Extended Attributes
> document.  So
> I think you are pointing out an issue with the Extended Attributes
> document here.

At the risk of putting words in Hannes' mouth, I'm pretty sure that the
draft he believes gives the impression that Extended Attributes can easily
support the Diameter AVP structure _is_ the Design Guidelines draft; as he
points out, it would be impossible for a reasonable person to get that idea
from the Extended Attributes draft.

...


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