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[radext] Re: Interim Meeting Tomorrow

Jan-Frederik Rieckers <rieckers@dfn.de> Tue, 03 March 2026 13:23 UTC

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On 3/3/26 11:49, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
> The current pull request uses SHOULD and RECOMMENDED as follows:
> https://github.com/radext-wg/draft-ietf-radext-radiusdtls-bis/pull/162/ 
> files#diff-168cb701f980750c7f337195b2ff5445abeb2742deebe68f7571dd0ba02b3582R292-R305 <https://github.com/radext-wg/draft-ietf-radext-radiusdtls-bis/pull/162/files#diff-168cb701f980750c7f337195b2ff5445abeb2742deebe68f7571dd0ba02b3582R292-R305>
> - RadSec clients SHOULD use Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation 
> (ALPN) to signal RadSec support.
> - RadSec servers SHOULD implement support for ALPN.
> - However, using ALPN will assist with future changes to RADIUS, and as 
> such, its use is RECOMMENDED.
> 
> Would the above mean that the 'RECOMMENDED' is also a 'SHOULD'
I think, the last "RECOMMENDED" is redundant and wouldn't need to be 
capitalized, because the two previous SHOULD's already say exactly the 
same thing.
In terms of BCP14, "SHOULD" and "RECOMMENDED" are equivalent.

I don't think it's harmful to have this in the current form. The first 
two describe the behavior, the last part gives reasoning why we 
recommend it.

Cheers,
Janfred

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