Re: [radext] Error-Cause value allocation for draft-ietf-radext-bigger-packets

Sounds good to me too (I'm the Designated Expert).

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com>
wrote:

>   Sounds good to me.  Since allocations for Error-Cause are "expert
> review", I think we're good to go here, barring any counter-arguments.
>
> > On Jun 20, 2016, at 10:18 AM, Stefan Winter <stefan.winter@restena.lu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > IANA is in the process of completing the allocations of new code points
> > for the bigger-packets draft.
> >
> > One of the two, the new Packet Type Protocol-Error, is no problem.
> >
> > The other one, the new value "Response Too Big" for the Error-Cause
> > attribute, raises a question that we wanted to let the working group
> > know about and ask for opinions.
> >
> > Error-Cause is defined in RFC 5176 with the following ranges:
> >
> > 0xx Reserved
> > 1xx Reserved
> > 2xx Successful Completion [of CoA exchanges]
> > 3xx Reserved
> > 4xx fatal errors commited by the Dynamic Authorization Client
> > 5xx fatal errors commited by the Dynamic Authorization Server
> >
> > As it happens, bigger-packets is not specific to Dynamic Authorization;
> > it applies to RADIUS packets in general.
> >
> > So, the categories of RFC5176 above do not fit well to the
> > "Response-Too-Big" semantics.
> >
> > After thinking about this for a bit, the cleanest approach is probably
> > to define two new categories:
> >
> > 6xx represent fatal errors committed by a RADIUS server
> > 7xx represent fatal errors committed by a RADIUS client
> >
> > And within those, allocate
> >
> > 601 Response Too Big
> >
> > If these categories are created, there should be corresponding text in a
> > new rev of bigger-packets.
> >
> > Please let the list know how you think about this in the next two weeks.
> > If noone speaks up against this, we'll continue along this path.
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Stefan Winter
> >
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