[Twisted-Python] Adding support for Diameter protocol

[Phil Mayers]

On 14/04/15 06:42, Glyph wrote:
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>> On Apr 14, 2015, at 00:22, Hamza Sheikh <fehrist at codeghar.com
>> <mailto:fehrist at codeghar.com>> wrote:
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>> I am new to Twisted and its community
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> Welcome, we are happy to have you!
>
>> and exploring adding Diameter support.
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> What is Diameter?

<offtopic>

It's a bit like RADIUS-over-TCP but with knobs on.

The only place it really took off - though it's a big place - is 
3G/mobile network AAA.

RADIUS has such a large installed user-base that DIAMETER had trouble 
reaching a critical mass anywhere that backwards compatibility was needed.

Kind of a shame, since it means AAA signalling for most encrypted 
wireless networks takes place over a crufty old protocol with a bunch of 
problems, not least lack of reliable transport, which got solved by... 
running radius-over-TLS-over-TCP, thus proving:

https://xkcd.com/927/

</offtopic>

;o)