Re: COPS-PR

[Rajiv Dighe <rajiv@cplane.com>]

I guess I haven't read drafts in a long time...have I? :)

This is what SPPI mentions about client types
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7.  Mapping of the MODULE-IDENTITY macro

7.1.  Mapping of the SUBJECT-CATEGORIES clause

The SUBJECT-CATEGORIES clause, which must be present, identifies one or
more categories of provisioning data for which this PIB module defines
provisioning information.  For use with the COPS-PR protocol, the
individual subject categories are mapped to COPS Client Types [COPS-PR].

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This implies that it is infact PIB module that identifies client-type to be 
used. client type needed can be either 'all' or list of one or more 
named-number enumerations where number is greater than zero. So Framework PIB 
has SUBJECT-CATEGORY of 'all' & diffserv PIB has SUBJECT-CATEGORY that is as 
of now not determined. 

Last I heard however everyone was supposed to use same client type as the one 
used in older COPS-DS ( 02 ). Atleast that's what the client type used in 
Last interoperability tests was. 

So I guess we should be asking this question in diffserv mailing list & not 
here.

--Rajiv

On Thursday 29 March 2001 10:50, Vito Pinto wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rajiv Dighe" <rajiv@cplane.com>
> To: "vijains" <vijains@mail.cominsights.com>; <rap@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:14 PM
> Subject: Re: COPS-PR
>
> > Q1 is easy to answer. COPS-PR uses 02 as client-type. there is only one
> > client type for cops-pr that I know of.
>
> I have a doubt about this: reading the entire COPS-PR RFC and especially
> the "IANA Consideration" section we find that:
>
>
> 9. IANA Considerations
>
>    COPS for Policy Provisioning follows the same IANA considerations for
>    COPS objects as the base COPS protocol [COPS].  COPS-PR has defined
>    one additional Decision Flag value of 0x02, extending the COPS base
>    protocol only by this one value.  No new COPS Client- Types are
>    defined by this document.
>
> The last sentence explicitly says that no new Client-type are defined, so:
> Q1: what document specifies the client-type value of 2 ?
> Q2: if not specified, what Client-type COPS-PR clients have to use?
>
> Regards
> Vito Pinto