Re: [Dime] AD review of draft-ietf-dime-rfc4005bis-09.txt

Benoit Claise <bclaise@cisco.com> Wed, 11 July 2012 07:08 UTC

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Hi Lionel,
> Hi Benoit,
>   
> - I could not find the meaning of * in, for example,
>   
>                            [ CHAP-Auth ]
>                            [ CHAP-Challenge ]
>                          * [ Framed-Compression ]
>                            [ Framed-Interface-Id ]
>                            [ Framed-IP-Address ]
>                          * [ Framed-IPv6-Prefix ]
>                            [ Framed-IP-Netmask ]
>                            [ Framed-MTU ]
>                            [ Framed-Protocol ]
>                            [ ARAP-Password ]
>                            [ ARAP-Security ]
>                          * [ ARAP-Security-Data ]
>                          * [ Login-IP-Host ]
>                          * [ Login-IPv6-Host ]
>                            [ Login-LAT-Group ]
>                            [ Login-LAT-Node ]
>                            [ Login-LAT-Port ]
>                            [ Login-LAT-Service ]
>                          * [ Tunneling ]
>                          * [ Proxy-Info ]
>                          * [ Route-Record ]
>                          * [ AVP ]
> */[[LM]]/*the « * » in front the AVP means that 0, 1 or more AVP scan be present in the request (or in a Grouped AVP). It follows rules used in RFC3588 and defined in RFC 5234 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5234#section-3.6).
>   
BC> Thanks for the education.
Is this so obvious to the Diameter readers, including the newcomers, 
that we don't need to mention it?
In other words, am I the only one NOT knowing this? ;-)

Regards, Benoit.

> Regards,
>   
> Lionel
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