RE: Possible issue for clarification -- RADIUS Accounting

[Avi Lior <avi@bridgewatersystems.com>]

Actually 2869 says the following:

It is envisioned that an Interim Accounting record (with Acct-
   Status-Type = Interim-Update (3)) would contain all of the attributes
   normally found in an Accounting Stop message with the exception of
   the Acct-Term-Cause attribute.

Hope this helps,

Avi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glen Zorn (gwz) [mailto:gwz@cisco.com] 
> Sent: January 4, 2005 7:16 PM
> To: 'Barney Wolff'; 'Nelson, David'
> Cc: radiusext@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RE: Possible issue for clarification -- RADIUS Accounting
> 
> 
> Barney Wolff <> supposedly scribbled:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:07:40PM -0500, Nelson, David wrote:
> >> 
> >> Since the purpose of the Interim-Update is to provide a snap-shot
> of
> >> the accounting statistics at that moment in time, I see no reason
> why
> >> the octet counts and session time attributes ought not to be 
> >> included. Is this potentially an erratum in RFC 2866? Or was
> there a
> >> good reason to omit these accounting statistics from the 
> >> Interim-Update messages?
> > 
> > I believe you are correct, and this was simply an oversight.
> 
> I tend to agree, but I think that the oversight )and error) 
> was actually in RFC 2869, which defines the semantics of the 
> Interim-Update Acct-Status-Type.  I think that the problem 
> could have been avoided but just including "Updates: RFC 
> 2866" in the header...
> 
> > Regards,
> > Barney
> > 
> > --
> > Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
> > I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 
> > 'Net.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> ~gwz
> 
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