Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-ietf-isms-radius-vacm-09

"Dave Nelson" <d.b.nelson@comcast.net> Tue, 17 August 2010 11:52 UTC

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From: Dave Nelson <d.b.nelson@comcast.net>
To: 'Magnus Nyström' <magnusn@gmail.com>, secdir@ietf.org, iesg@ietf.org, draft-ietf-isms-radius-vacm@tools.ietf.org
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Magnus Nyström writes...

> 3. Current sub-subsection 7.2.1 seems to indicate that neither
> the User-Name nor the Management-Policy-ID are required (says
> "or equivalent"). Please clarify if this is inconsistent with
> the text in 7.2 or not (maybe I'm missing something here).

Use of the term "or equivalent" is intended to cover the use of other AAA
protocols besides RADIUS.  For use with RADIUS, the User-Name and
Management-Policy-Id are required to use mechanism described in this
document.  For some other, hypothetical, AAA service the equivalent
attributes may have other names.  This is just a bit of editorial
future-proofing.  The other IETF standard AAA protocol, Diameter, inherits
the RADIUS attribute space, so these attributes are also available via
Diamter.

> 4. In Section 7.2.3, how many groups can a user be a member of
> for a given securityModel in this design? Only one?

RFC 5607 allows zero or one instance of the Management-Policy-Id to occur in
any RADIUS Access-Accept message, so for RADIUS usage it would be only one.