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

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan DeKok [mailto:aland@deployingradius.com] 
> Sent: 19 January 2010 21:45
> To: Wojciech Dec (wdec)
> Cc: Dave Nelson; radiusext@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: "Last Look" at the RADIUS Design Guidelines document
> 
> Wojciech Dec (wdec) wrote:
> > Yes, it was intentional because:
> > a) Expressing complex data using simple attributes 
> generally requires 
> > an elaborate rule set to be present,
> 
>   A raft of existing RFCs would seem to disprove that idea.

Just by making attributes simple does not mean that the complexity of
representing an elaborate data structure goes away - it's moved
elsewhere. 
Furthermore, no Radius RFC does the job satisfactorily, vide rfc 5090. 

-Woj.

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