Hello,

 thanks for your Gen-ART review... one comment below: 

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Spencer Dawkins [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Envoyé : lundi 10 août 2009 00:31
> À : jouni korhonen
> Cc : [email protected]; General Area Review Team
> Objet : Re: Gen-ART Review of draft-ietf-dime-pmip6-02.txt
> 
> i think we're down to one item...
> 
> >>>> 5.1.  MAG-to-HAAA Interface
> >>>>
> >>>> Whenever the MAG sends a Diameter request message to the 
> HAAA the 
> >>>> User-Name AVP SHOULD contain the MN's identity.  The MN 
> identity, 
> >>>> if
> >>>>
> >>>> Spencer (minor): what is this SHOULD conditional on?
> >>>
> >>> In case of identity hiding is applied, the User-Name can 
> be absent.
> >>
> >> Ah - if my understanding is correct, the text might be clearer as 
> >> "Whenever the MAG sends a Diameter request message to the HAAA and 
> >> identity hiding is not in effect, the User-Name MUST contain the  
> >> MN's identity".
> >
> > I am still a bit hesitant with the MUST here. Anyway, if 
> other authors 
> > don't disagree I am ok with the proposed change.
> 
> I would be OK with a SHOULD - you've provided at least one 
> reason why it's not an unconditional MUST - but please check 
> with other authors and doc shepherd.


 I'm ok with the proposed text. I just hope there's no other case where the 
User-Name may not be available.

 Regards,

 Julien

> 
> thanks for the quick responses!
> 
> spencer
> 
> >>>> available, MUST be in Network Access Identifier (NAI) [RFC4282] 
> >>>> format.  At minimum the home realm of the MN MUST be 
> available at  
> >>>> the MAG when the network access authentication takes place.  
> >>>> Otherwise the MAG is not able to route the Diameter request 
> >>>> messages towards the correct HAAA.  The MN identity used on the 
> >>>> MAG-to-HAAA interface and in the User-Name AVP MAY entirely be 
> >>>> related to the network access authentication, and therefore not 
> >>>> suitable to be used as the MN-ID mobility option value in the 
> >>>> subsequent PBU/PBA messages.  See the related discussion on MN's 
> >>>> identities in Section 4.6 and in Section 5.2.1
> 
> 
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