Subject: re: call fo discussion on draft-heinamen-radius-pe-discovery-03.txt

From: "Matt Squire" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 19:01:21 -0400

> 
>  > You can use draft-chiba to send a CoA-Request with 
> Service-Type="Authorize
>  > Only" in order to make this happen.
> 
> yes, perhaps so.  however, i would not like to make mandatory anything
> that is beyond current standards.  optional recommendations based on
> drafts are ok.
> 
> so where are we now?  are people happy if i make another 
> version of the
> draft, where the pes always re-authenticate all their sites every N
> minutes and accounting keepalives are not used?  if so i can do it and
> publish the new version as wg document.
> 

I'd like to see the comments addressed and the draft re-submitted.  

I think there's ample precedent for RADIUS being used for such a discovery process, and examples have been given by both Bernard and Juha.  The draft doesn't impose any new requirements or protocol elements on the existing standards, and improvements underway apply to many RADIUS applications.  

- Matt