Re: : Re: authors 48 hours: RFC 4005

This looks fine to me.  Any objections?

On Mon, 30 May 2005, David Mitton wrote:

> Suggested changes
> Dave.
>
> ------
> Text changes for RFC 4005 <draft-ietf-aaa-diameter-nasreq-17.txt>
>
> Section 9.6.  RADIUS Vendor Specific Attributes
>
> para 1:  s/recommended/example/
>
> after para 1: <add >
>     A system communicating between Diameter and RADIUS MAY have specific
>     knowledge of vendor formats, and MAY be able translate between the
>     two formats. However, given the deployment of many RADIUS vendor
>     formats that do not follow the example format in RFC 2865 [RADIUS],
>     (e.g. those that use a longer vendor type code) the translations in
>     the next two sections, will not work in general for those VSAs.  RFC
>     2865 states that a robust implementation SHOULD support the field as
>     undistinguished octets.
>
>     Systems that don't have vendor format knowledge, MAY discard such
>     attributes not knowing a suitable translation. An alternative format is
>     under consideration [VSAdraft] that proposes encodings that would
>     preserve the native information and not require vendor knowledge in
>     the gateway system.
>
>     The following sections are an example for translating RADIUS VSAs
>     that use the example RADIUS format, and Diameter VSAs that have type
>     codes less than 255, and value field lengths less than 252.
> <endadd>
>
>
> 9.6.1.  Forwarding a Diameter Vendor AVP as a RADIUS VSA
>
> Add to para 1, first sentence:
>     For Type codes less than 255, the value field length MUST be less
>     than 252 or the AVP will be discarded.
>
>
> Section: 9.6.2.  Forwarding a RADIUS VSA as a Diameter Vendor Specific AVP
>
> Change from:
>        Diameter AVP length = length of AVP (heade
> To:
>        Diameter AVP length = length of AVP (header + data)
>
>
>
> Informative References (section 13.2, page 79)
> <Add after [DiamMIP]>
>
> [VSAdraft] D. Mitton "Diameter/RADIUS Vendor Specific AVP Translation",
> draft-mitton-diameter-radius-vsas-00.txt, "Work in Progress", April 2005
>
> <endadd>
>