Subject: [Pana] RE: Issues 18

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:25:30 +0300

Alper,

Thanks for comments. See below.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Alper Yegin [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: 30 September, 2003 00:43
> To: Forsberg Dan (NRC/Helsinki)
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Issues 18
> 
> 
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > http://danforsberg.info:8080/pana-issues/issue18
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > Termination-Cause AVP values?
> > These are from Diameter spec (17):
> > 
> >     LOGOUT                   1  (PaC -> PAA)
> >        The user initiated a disconnect
> > 
> >     BAD_ANSWER               3  (PaC -> PAA)
> >        This value indicates that the authorization answer
> >        received by the access device was not processed
> >        successfully.
> 
> The offending message is not necessarily an "answer". In most 
> of the cases,
> as it is sent by the PAA, it is a request. So, calling this 
> AVP "BAD_ANSWER"
> is a bit confusing. Maybe we should call it BAD_MESSAGE?

That's better.

> 
> Also, I suggest we use "client" instead of "user" in this 
> context. We use
> mostly the former in the text... Similarly, "access device" 
> can be "client".

Ok.

> 
> > 
> >     ADMINISTRATIVE           4  (PAA -> Pac)
> >        The user was not granted access, or was
> >        disconnected, due to administrative reasons,
> >        such as the receipt of a Abort-Session-Request
> >        message.
> > 
> >     AUTH_EXPIRED             6  (PAA -> PaC)
> >        The user's access was terminated since its
> >        authorized session time has expired.
> > 
> >     SESSION_TIMEOUT          8  (PAA -> PaC)
> >        The user's session has timed out, and service
> >        has been terminated.
> 
> These last two seem redundant to me. Is there a difference 
> between them?

Yes, if both Authorization-Lifetime and Session-Timeout are used. 
I guess we use only Session-Timeout, but this relates to the open 
issue8.

- Dan

> Alper

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