Fwd: Re: RADIUS

[Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>]

Bernard:

I was going to ask you separately, but the IESG is interested in your 
view.  Please respond to the question below.

Russ


> From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
> To: Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
> Cc: iesg@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: RADIUS
> Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 15:49:43 -0400
>
> In message <5.2.0.9.2.20030502153409.018f5df8@mail.binhost.com>, Russ 
> Housley w
> rites:
> >One of the approaches for IEEE 802.11 fast roaming would require a RADIUS
> >extension.  Yet, many people say that "RADIUS is dead."  If the proponents
> >of this solution were to generate the Internet-Draft, is there any reason
> >to prevent it from being published on the standards track?
> >
>
> Given the number of bad ideas involving RADIUS, I'd like someone like
> Bernard to hear them out before saying "yes".
>
> Would it be unreasonable to ask such people to generate a companion AAA
> draft at the same time, to show the way forward?
>
>
>                 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
>                 http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)