I submitted errata on this https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6915

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 5:21 PM Alan DeKok <al...@deployingradius.com>
wrote:

> On Mar 31, 2022, at 10:05 AM, Oleg Pekar <oleg.pekar.2...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > It looks like RADIUS RFC 2865, Section "5. Attributes" is ambiguous when
> it talks about the attribute value size:
> >
> > First it says: "The Value field is zero or more octets", then it
> provides 5 possible value data types none of which allows a zero length
> value.
>
>   Yeah.  :(  It's horrible.
>
> > Section "5.26. Vendor-Specific" also says about the value of a
> vendor-specific attribute "The String field is one or more octets".
> >
> > Thus the RFC allows empty values for attributes in general but prohibits
> for any declared types of the attributes.
>
>   Yes.
>
>   RADIUS is weird and terrible.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>
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