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Re: [radext] Questions about draft-ietf-radext-bigger-packets-03

Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> Thu, 29 October 2015 12:29 UTC

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On Oct 29, 2015, at 7:36 AM, Stefan Winter <stefan.winter@restena.lu> wrote:
>>  On that note:  Response-Length is a  2-octet unsigned integer of maximum response length.
>> 
>>  Can that be changed to be of data type "integer"?   And maybe reference data types?
>> 
>>  I'll refresh the data types document today.
> 
> Unfortunately, RFC7120 does not foresee early allocation of "IESG
> Consensus" type allocations.

  I meant more that the draft should be updated to use "integer" instead of a non-standard data type.

> I wonder what is the document author's preference: publish the document
> without waiting for an implementation and the accompanying
> Implementation Status section?
> 
> Or include such a section, stating that a FreeRADIUS implementation is WIP?

  It's hard to have an implementation without an assigned packet code or attribute.  But I think I can put one together with reasonable values... and make sure to *not* ship before the numbers are allocated through IANA.

  Alan DeKok.

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