eap Mailing List: Re: Discrepancies between 802.1XREV and RFC 2248bis

[Bernard Aboba (aboba]

> Hi folks,
>    Yes, a reread of 6.7 leads me to believe that it could be confusing
> to implementers.   My opinion is that the current 6.7 was written before
> there was a supplicant controlled port.  With the addition of the
> supplicant controlled port, the uni-directional nature of the transport
> is no longer a blocking feature to a bi-directional EAP method.

I agree (modulo the caveats in Section 2.4 of RFC 2284bis).

> I believe the points we want to make in 6.7 are the following:

This sounds like a good start.  Do you want to draft some sample text for
review?