RE: Possible issue for clarification -- RADIUS Accounting

["Glen Zorn \(gwz\)" <gwz@cisco.com>]

Avi Lior <mailto:avi@bridgewatersystems.com> supposedly scribbled:

> 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.

I'm quite aware of that; what's missing is the reverse pointer to
2866 that would allow people to discover (without the use of ESP :-)
that they need to read 2869 to understand interim accounting.
 
> 
> 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
>> 
>> Why is it that most of the world's problems can't be solved by
simply
>>   listening to John Coltrane? -- Henry Gabriel
>> 
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Hope this helps,

~gwz

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simply
  listening to John Coltrane? -- Henry Gabriel

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