Subject: RE: [AAA-WG]: A proposal for the elimination of MRI and comments on -03.

From: Yiwen Jiang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 11:46:56 -0400

> Not at all. The proposal is to allow new extensions that 
> wouldn't be supported
> by all proxies. Proxies in fact will most likely want to 
> route messages, and
> not care about the contents of the message, but if an error 
> is found, it
> should be able to reply back to the NAS, right? That's the goal here.
Agreed.

> Again, some people want to run their networks like this (and 
> are today), so
> I don't think we can eliminate this feature since RADIUS supports it.
Sorry, I didn't realize this... 

> Do recall, though, that this is not the "default" way the 
> protocol works. This
> is a special configuration for special business relationships.
Cool.. Thanks again for your help, Pat.