Re: [radext] Proposed charter text based on IETF-115 BoF

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 22 November 2022 20:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [radext] Proposed charter text based on IETF-115 BoF
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Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> wrote:
    >   That might be possible.  But experience shows that it's difficult to
    > even get shred secrets correct.  Adding yet more dependencies to RADIUS
    > seems difficult.

    >> I think that the major hurdle for using RPK is possibly that we
    >> haven't made operators aware of something clearly and easily copy and
    >> pasted.

    >   OpenSSL doesn't support RFC 7250.  That makes it difficult.

Oh.  Annoying that good security is blocked in this way.

    >>> 2) define (or investigate defining) a "hop by hop" signalling packet.
    >>
    >> Do you mean a hop-by-hop RADIUS packet, or a hop-by-hop DTLS packet?

    >   I mean that there are a few RFCs which "overload" Status-Server to do
    > per-hop signalling.  If there's a wide-spread use for per-hop
    > signalling / negotiation, then we might as well define an explicit
    > per-hop signalling packet.

Ah, I understand now.

    >   RFC 5997 defined Status-Server as either an application-layer "ping",
    > or as an RFC 3539 application-layer watchdog timer.  Other uses-cases
    > are arguably mis-uses.

It seems then like we either need to bless the current uses, or as you say,
replace them.

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