RADIUS spec -vs- vendor extensions

thoth@purplefrog.com
Mon, 28 Apr 1997 14:24:07 EDT

What's the serious paranoia about vendor-specific extensions? As long as
they are not required, i.e. you can still operate the portmaster at a
competetive functionality even with a strict IETF RADIUS daemon, they're fine
in my book. The main problems I can see are:

Their numeric codes may be shoved aside by IETF revisions if they are
chosen badly or unluckily.

They may become unsupported in future releases of ComOS, or replaced by
IETF-approved extensions.

Otherwise, I think extensions are a great testing ground for new fodder for
standards, and can often add value to the ISP with the clue to take advantage.

Go ahead, deny it!

-- 
Bob Forsman                                   thoth@gainesville.fl.us
           http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/