Re: [proxies] [IETF Proxy] Next Steps

Hi,
>>> I guess you could say that the proxy's are a policy enforcement
>>> point... 
>>
>> I suppose you could, but I wish you wouldn't ;-).
>>
>> ...
>
> ;-)
>
> but that is what it does, doesn't it? It either or not forwards 
> authentication requests based on the forwarding policies that have 
> been set.... The point I wanted to make is that the proxy in this case 
> is about policies, not about politics.

Well concept is correct, but the term of policy enforcement point is a 
bit problematic these days, because it is used in a different context 
and with a different meaning already: NEA. In NEA, the PEP has 
approximately the role of a NAS. While what we are talking about here is 
not about stuff that happens on a NAS, but on a AAA server behind that 
NAS. So, if we were to use terms from the NEA world, I would rather say 
that a policy-driven proxy should be termed Policy Decision Point - 
after all, forwarding-or-not is a decision, not an enforcement. Anyway, 
thanks for the pointer in the general NEA direction - a NEA PDP is 
indeed quite an analogous thing to a AAA policy-motivated proxy IMHO.

Enough acronyms for a day,

Stefan
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