RADEXT%20Issues%20and%20Fixes

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RADEXT Issues and Fixes

• David B. Nelson
• RADEXT WG
• IETF 62
• Minneapolis, MN

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The Issues and Fixes Draft

• In the WG charter as a work item
• Intended to be an Informational RFC
• Covers problems, issues and points of confusion
  in existing RADIUS RFCs
• Protocol issues or documentation issues
• Not to be used to introduce new features,
  functionality or usages

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Repository of Issues

• The current issues list is maintained at
  http//www.drizzle.com/aboba/RADEXT/
• Add new issues using the issue template (at the
  sane location) and e-mail to the WG mailing list

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Summary of Issues

• Issue 242 (EAP) Errata in RFC 3579. Clarify use
  of State attribute to support EAP.
• Issue 55 Errata in RFC 3576. Allow
  Message-Authenticator in CoA messages.
• Issue 60 Errata in RFC 2869. Updates RFC 2866
  with respect to Interim-Update value of
  Acct-Status-Type.
• Issue 61 Clarification of RFC 2865. Describe
  what to do with multiple instances of the
  Filter-ID attribute.

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Summary of Issues

• Issue 62 Clarification of RFC 2865. The
  Service-Type attribute has implicit Mandatory
  status.
• Issue 63 Clarification to RFC 3579. Practices
  for extending the Request-ID beyond 8 octets.
• Issue 67 Clarification to RFC 2865 and RFC 3580.
  What types of traffic count toward maintaining
  the sessions Idle-Timeout value?

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Summary of Issues

• Issue 68 Clarification to RFC 2865 (and others).
  How is RADIUS used to authorize provisioning of
  services beyond layer 2 or layer 3 network
  access?
• Issue 69 Clarification of RFC 3576. Use of the
  Authorize-Only Service-Type within CoA messages.
• Issue (tba) Clarification of RFC 2869.
  Appropriate use of the Access-Reject message, as
  opposed to the Access-Challenge message.

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Next Steps

• Stimulate a fuller discussion of these issues on
  the WG mailing list
• One e-mail thread per issue
• Start the RADEXT Issues and Fixes I-D
• Dave Nelson volunteers to act as document Editor
• Need Authors, Contributors and Reviewers to step
  forward