The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Remote Authentication Dial In
User Service (RADIUS)' <draft-ietf-radius-radius-v2-06.txt> as a Draft
Standard, replacing RFC2138.
This document is the product of the Remote Authentication Dial-In User
Service Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Bert Wijnen and
Randy Bush.
Technical Summary
This document describes a widely deployed protocol for carrying user
authentication, authorization, and configuration information between a
network access server which desires to authenticate its links and a usually
shared authentication server.
Working Group Summary
Working group review had no significant technical dissent.
Protocol Quality
The document was reviewed by Randy Bush.
Note to RFC Editor:
The IESG requests the following text be added as an IESG Note:
This protocol is widely implemented and used. Experience has shown
that it can suffer degraded performance and lost data when used in
large scale systems, in part because it does not include provisions
for congestion control. Readers of this document may find it
beneficial to track the progress of the IETF's AAA working group,
which may develop a successor protocol that better addresses the
scaling and congestion control issues.
