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Re: Windows 2000 and Cicsco router interoperability
Stephen Kent wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> >So, we have all been dialing into our ISPs without any Authentication,
> >Authorization or Accounting? Wow, the IETF had better hurry up before
> >people catch on!
> >
> >Seriously, Stephen, Chinna was referring to current AAA practices. Yes,
> >they exist, and those who own and operate the networks are quite
> >concerned about them.
> >
>
> Then Chinna should not refer to such ad hoc mechanisms by the name of
> an IETF WG, as one might well make the assumption that such diverse
> practices have the status of an IETF standard. As the security
> advisor to our ISP (now Genuity), I don't recall use of the phrase
> AAA to refer to what we did for all these years.
Sorry. Check out the config on any cisco router. "aaa ..." has been a
part of it for many years (way before the AAA WG first met), and a
general part of the traditional remote access vocabulary for as long as
I can remember...
>
> So, no, I make no apologies for pointing out that the terminology
> used by Chinna is inappropriate and misleading. The tenor of his
> messages over the last few days has been intimidating and often
> inaccurate. Are we now entering the tag team phase of this
> discussion?
>
> Steve
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