eap Mailing List: RE: Re: network discovery & selection: problem definition

[Bernard Aboba (aboba]

> I actually like Bernard's idea of including identity
> (credential) selection, since I don't think the assumption that
> the user's terminal will have only a single set of credentials
> is very realistic. Even if the terminal has only a single
> identity for Public Wireless LANs, private WLANs (corporate,
> home) are much more widely used.

It is also possible that a terminal will have different EAP
identities/credentials depending on the media (PPP, 802.11, etc.).

> Fortunately, it seems that all the proposed solutions will at
> least partially solve this problem as well, so including it
> doesn't seem to complicate things very much.

There are some issues in identity/credential selection that are not
covered by the proposals.  For example, see:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pkix-wlan-extns-04.txt

> The most difficult thing seems to be going from discovery to
> selection. Just knowing which choices are available is probably
> enough for manual selection (and we certainly should support
> that as a fallback).

Yes.