eap Mailing List: Re: Proposed Resolution of Issue 188: Packet ordering

[Jari Arkko (jari.arkko]

Lauri Tarkkala wrote:

> Like I previously said, considering the heritage of EAP,
> it probably is a good idea to require EAP transports
> to provide ordering guarantees. IF the historical

Agreed.

> baggage were not to exist, I do feel that freeing
> the authenticator implementor from thinking about
> these issues by requiring a total order on all packets
> might be a bit heavy-handed... ;-)

Absolutely. If we didn't have the baggage, the protocol
would indeed look different ;-) But we do, so...

--Jari