Re: [Dime] WG adoption call for draft-zorn-dime-rfc4005bis-01

> I think that the idea is not to say that RADIUS/Diameter interworking is
> not possible at all. The idea is more about to acknowledge the fact that
> RFC 4005 can not remain the de-facto and the only reference for
> RADIUS/Diameter translation as this section is under specified and not
> applicable anyway to all RADIUS/Diameter interworking scenarios. As
> something has to be done, it is proposed to remove anything about
> RADIUS/Diameter translation from RFC 4005. The NASREQ application is
> self-consistent without this part.

That seems like a good reasoning.

So: I support adoption of this document.

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

>>> The problem is that apparently nobody has _ever_ transitioned from
>>> RADIUS to Diameter and it appears as if nobody ever will.
>> I am not so pessimistic about Diameter :)
>>
>>>    Regarding EDUROAM, Diameter
>>> existed long before EDUROAM but they chose to hack RADIUS
>> in their own way.
>>> In any case, if they decided to migrate to Diameter they
>> could use the
>>> pointless tunneling protocol, retiring their RADIUS server when the
>>> transition was complete.
>> You are implying that each domain can retire its RADIUS
>> server only when
>> *all* the domains have moved all their clients to Diameter...
>> This reasoning may be possible in a single-domain context,
>> but it does not hold in a multi-domain roaming consortium case.
> About roaming issues, I think that we should make the difference between
> inter-domain and intra-domain. If there exists a solution for
> RADIUS/Diameter interworking, each domain could rely on either RADIUS or
> Diameter, and the interworking solution would be applied *only* between
> AAA servers/proxies. In intra-domain, if a single AAA server can support
> both RADIUS and Diameter clients, the migration path is quite simple,
> no?
>
>> Best regards,
>> Sebastien.
>>
>> --
>> Sebastien Decugis
>> Research fellow
>> Network Architecture Group
>> NICT (nict.go.jp)
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