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Re: "Last Look" at the RADIUS Design Guidelines document



On Jan 12, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Avi Lior wrote:

I am sorry but i dont understand the concept of a non-IETF SDO vs (I assume) an IETF SDO.
The is no significant concept there other than the fact that I  
consider the IETF to be an SDO.
I think that that is a personal attack David...
It was not intended as an attack, but simply as an observation.

You have no idea what I have been doing in other SDOs.
With all due respect, you personally told me as much during one of the  
IETF social events.  Do you recall?  While I do see an element of  
irony here, let's not get diverted down that "rathole".
I think the main issue of contention is how to reasonably extend the  
RADIUS protocol to me the need to advanced applications.  I think that  
it's reasonable to *extended* RADIUS in a forward / backward  
compatible way.  What I think is unreasonable is to *re-define* RADIUS  
in a fashion that "breaks" a large number of fielded deployments.  We  
can argue all day about whether the "traditional" RADIUS Attributes  
and data model as defined in RFC encompasses the notion of complex  
attributes.  What I think is compelling is the fact that a large  
number of existing implementations took the interpretation that it  
doesn't.
Why is it so onerous to utilize the RADIUS Extended Attribute as the  
vehicle to address the needs fro complex types and other advanced  
features?  I simply don't understand.



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