Re: [pcp] PANA implementatinos to consider

Margaret Wasserman <margaretw42@gmail.com> Fri, 14 September 2012 09:54 UTC

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I made one important typo here that I should fix:

On Sep 14, 2012, at 5:50 AM, Margaret Wasserman wrote:
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> How does this work in the case where the PCP Server is not running a PANA Server?  I _think_ that if a PCP Client asks its PANA Client to perform authentication, and the PCP Server does support authentication, some sort of "unsupported version" error code will be returned to the _PCP Client_ (due to the details of your proposed

s/PCP Server does support authentication/PCP Server _doesn't_ support authentication

> demultiplexing scheme), and that nothing will be returned to the PANA Client, at all.  We would need to make sure that secure PCP clients are specified to handle an "unsupported version" error differently when the PANA Client is in this particular state, but how does the PCP Client know that this is why that error was returned?  If this does happen, how does the PCP client inform the PANA Client that it should stop trying to perform authentication with that particular PCP Server?  

Margaret