On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:13:30PM -0400, Ralph Droms wrote:
> 
> But I'm speculating wildly here without explicit text to discuss.  It  
> might not even be necessary to use temporary address assignment if  
> address assignment can take place prior to authentication, with  
> denial of access and/or revocation if authentication fails.

Yes, that is also possible.  A service address can be assigned for
unauthenticated clients, but with a shorter lifetime (e.g., 60-sec)
than that for authenticated ones.  After successful authentication,
the lifetime can be extended by DHCP renew.

Yoshihiro Ohba

> 
> - Ralph
> 
> On Oct 24, 2007, at Oct 24, 2007,4:24 PM, Bill Welch wrote:
> 
> >Alper,
> >
> >It's just a matter of resource management and managing state on the
> >BRAS/BNG.
> >
> >With PPPoE you have the following steps:
> >Authentication
> >Resource assignment (Address, QoS, filters)
> >
> >With PANA you have the following:
> >Temp resource assignment (Address, QoS, filters)
> >Authentication
> >Removal of temp resources (Address, QoS, filters)
> >Service resource assignment (Address, QoS, filters)
> >
> >
> >The Addresses, Qos and filters will not be the same for temp resource
> >assignment and Service resource assignment.
> >
> >Every login is four step process vs. a two step process and you  
> >have to
> >manage some type of token or identifier between the authentication and
> >service resource assignment.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Bill Welch
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Alper Yegin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:08 PM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bill Welch
> >Cc: 'Internet Area'
> >Subject: RE: [Int-area] DCHP-based authentication for DSL?
> >
> >
> >I think we need to understand this a bit better, as now we are talking
> >about
> >implementation optimizations.
> >
> >>The fact that the BRAS/IP Edge equipment in this case do not have
> >>to "distribute" a full subscriber IP state in the BRAS until the
> >>subscriber is okay, is a big advantage to the subscriber bring up
> >rate.
> >
> >How is the situation different if you were using PANA?
> >
> >>Having a solution that assigns a temporary address or uses a link
> >local
> >>address complicates the implementation and does not mirror the
> >existing
> >>PPPoE solution.
> >
> >Can you please expand on the complication part? Please note that  
> >the IP
> >address configured prior to subscriber authentication is not the
> >"service IP
> >address".
> >
> >Also, even with DHCPv6, the client is already configured with a
> >link-local
> >IPv6 address prior to sending the very first DHCPv6 message.
> >
> >Alper
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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