Re: : FW: Diameter EAP contradicts RFC 3588

Ok for me. --Jari

[email protected] wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Glen Zorn brought this up during AUTH48 review of Diameter EAP.  We will
>make the change, just as long as noone objects.
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>thanks,
>John
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>>Hi,
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>>I think Glen is right here. RFC 3588 says "MUST", and the 
>>"MAY" in current text is IMHO an accident (I don't think
>>anyone ever proposed that there would be valid reasons 
>>not to advertise the support. Of course, an implementation
>>may have a switch for disabling EAP, but then it's no
>>longer supported).
>>
>>Thus, I'd propose the following RFC-Editor note:
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>>-----------
>>Section 2.1, 1st paragraph:
>>OLD:
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>>  Diameter nodes conforming to this specification MAY advertise ...
>>
>>NEW:
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>>  Diameter nodes conforming to this specification MUST advertise ...
>>                                                  ^^^^
>>------------
>>
>>Given that this sounds like a technical change, the RFC
>>editor probably wants this from the ADs.. 
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Pasi
>>
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: ext Glen Zorn (gwz) [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:14 PM
>>>To: Eronen Pasi (Nokia-NRC/Helsinki); [email protected]
>>>Cc: 'Bert Wijnen'; Kessens David (Nokia-NET/MtView);
>>>[email protected]; [email protected]; Loughney John
>>>(Nokia-NRC/Helsinki)
>>>Subject: Diameter EAP contradicts RFC 3588
>>>
>>>
>>>Section 2.1, first paragraph says "Diameter nodes conforming to this
>>>specification MAY advertise support by including the Diameter EAP
>>>Application ID value of 5 in the Auth-Application-Id AVP of the
>>>Capabilities-Exchange-Request and Capabilities-Exchange-Answer
>>>command [BASE]."  However, this seems to contradict RFC 3588, which
>>>says in several places that "Diameter nodes MUST advertise locally
>>>supported applications".  It seems that either the MAY needs to
>>>change to a MUST or the document changed to say "Updates: RFC 3588".
>>>I hope nobody is going to yell at me about the lateness of this note
>>>because I've mentioned this point several times over the years &
>>>been ignored...
>>>
>>>~gwz
>>>
>>>Why is it that most of the world's problems can't be solved by
>>>simply
>>>  listening to John Coltrane? -- Henry Gabriel
>>>
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>>>
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