Re: [Dime] Strange paragraph in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dime-rfc3588bis-21

Matt Holdrege <holdrege@gmail.com> Sat, 19 July 2014 08:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Dime] Strange paragraph in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dime-rfc3588bis-21
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Ouch! Sorry. I guess I wasn't looking in the right place. I see that the
paragraph was fixed anyways.

Thanks,
-Matt


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Jouni Korhonen <jouni.nospam@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Matt,
>
> RFC3588 has been obsoleted by RFC6733 (i.e. no use to look into 3588bis
> versions).
>
> - Jouni
>
> 7/18/2014 10:25 PM, Matt Holdrege kirjoitti:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry to butt in with a minor nit, but I noticed that section 2.2
>> appears to have mutually exclusive statements.
>>
>> 1. Connections between Diameter peers SHOULD be protected by TLS.
>> 2. The Diameter protocol MUST NOT be used without any security mechanism.
>>
>> I thought the text in RFC 3588 was ok, minus all the NAS bits? Or maybe
>> say that the "Diameter protocol must not be used without inclusive or
>> external transport layer security". Or some such text?
>>
>> -Matt
>>
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