Re: call for discussion on draft-heinanen-radius-pe-discovery-03.txt

Bernard Aboba wrote:
>>as it is currently written, the pe is not required to authenticate all
>>its sites, but just to send any message to the radius server at least
>>every N minutes.  i proposed to use an accounting message for that
>>purpose, but it could as well be re-authentication message.
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> Or re-authorization (no authentication required) as in pre-paid.
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>>the text mentions that pes should use exponential backoff. i guess that
>>it is standard practice in any protocol.
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> Yes, but unfortunately not in RADIUS. We'll be producing a separate
> document to provide details on how that is done.

In any case, I would suspect that for some period of time the number of typical 
PPVPN nodes will lag behind the state of the art in number of access nodes 
hitting a radius server. If not, then PPVPN will simply become an additional 
driver for making these improvements (improvements that of course need to be 
done anyway).

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>>yes, perhaps so.  however, i would not like to make mandatory anything
>>that is beyond current standards.  optional recommendations based on
>>drafts are ok.
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> draft-chiba is going to RFC soon. Support can be optional.
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