Re: [radext] Data types document

Sam Hartman <hartmans@painless-security.com> Mon, 15 September 2014 21:43 UTC

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To: Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com>
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Subject: Re: [radext] Data types document
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>>>>> "Alan" == Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> writes:

    Alan> 2) The document has an "enum" data type.  It's really
    Alan> "integer', but with enumerated values.



    Alan>    Is this OK?

Yes.

    Alan> 3) Some standard attributes should be automatically
    Alan> concatenated, e.g. EAP-Message, PKM-SS-Cert, and PKM-CA-Cert

    Alan>   Should these be a separate data type, to highlight the fact
    Alan> that they're special?

I think a special data type for this would be valuable.
It would be helpful to implementations and to standards writers both.