Is provisioning services in Accounting-Request packets bad?

[Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com>]

  When a RADIUS server returns Access-Accept, some systems also request
that it send an Accounting-Request packet to a provisioning system.
This provisioning system requires information such as Framed-IP-Address,
or copies of some VSAs from the Access-Accept.

  Quote "This is not unusual, and several vendors are providing such a
solution".

  RFC 2866 doesn't forbid this, as it expects accounting packets to be
sent by the NAS.  The guidelines document contains minimal text about
accounting.

  Is it worth adding a line in the "guidelines" document saying that
accounting packets are to be used for... accounting?  And that
provisioning services via Accounting-Request is bad?

  Alan DeKok.

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