Re: AD review of draft-zorn-radius-pkmv1-04.txt

["Glen Zorn" <gwz at net-zen.net>]

Sorry for the late response -- my laptop was stolen in Stockholm & I'm just
getting back to normal :-(

> If we are to dismiss the Design Guidelines as a "personal preference" how
are they to be taken seriously?

They shouldn't be taken _too_ seriously.  

> I understand that following someone else's design 
> guidance is not always popular with developers, but following regular
design patterns is a well recognized practice
> in software engineering, that is 
> generally attributed with increasing product quality and maintainability.B
I think we simply need to "get with the 
> program" here. 

I really think that the IETF has enough trouble with protocol engineering
w/o setting itself up as a software engineering standards body; indeed, the
"waterfall" design process followed (by & large) in the IETF was discredited
years ago...