Re: [radext] Extended IDs

[Peter Deacon <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, Enke Chen wrote:

> The "Status-Server" is used for capability negotiation by both drafts.

Completely agree.  None of my comments regarding status server are unique 
to either draft.

> Neither mechanism will work with an ancient server that does not support 
> the "Status-server" properly.

This is not my understanding.  I see nothing in text precluding anyone 
from manually configuring support for extended-id or ORA and never using 
status-server if they prefer not to for whatever reason.

Welcome specific citation saying I'm wrong or logical argument explaining 
why extended-id is not possible without status-server /w relevant 
citations.  Opinions of usefulness of status-server for capability 
negotiation NOT welcome.

What's the point of explicitly referencing the possibility of manual 
enablement if not to support extended-id without status-server?

"  Unless specified by configuration, a client MUST NOT send a RADIUS
    packet (other than the Status-Server request) with the "Extended
    Identifier Attribute" to a server until it has received a response
    from the server confirming its support for the Extended Identifier
    feature using the "Extended Identifier Attribute"."

regards,
Peter