Subject: Re: [AAA-WG]: New Extension text in base protocol

From: Erik Guttman Sun Frankfurt Staff Engineer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:11:03 +0200 (MEST)

Pat,

> Below is the proposed text that I have added to the -02 candidate that
> describes what a Diameter extension is.
> 
> Please send any comments,

These comments concern only the new text's *style* not *content.*

> 2.3  Diameter Extensions
> 
>    As previously mentioned, the Diameter base protocol does not operate
>    on its own, but requires appplication-specific extensions, commonly
>    referred to as Diameter extensions. A Diameter extension is a

commonly referred to
->
referred to in this document as

>    17.3), while supporting the original extension. During the
>    capabilities exchange, a Diameter node could know whether it should
>    send

could know whether it should send
->
can determine whether to exchange messages using

>    the prorietary version, or the standards one, by inspecting the

the proprietary version, or the standards one, by
->
the proprietary or standard version of the extension by

Erik

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