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

[Jim Burns (jeb]

Hi Bernard,
   Yes, I would be happy to take a first crack at it and then accept input.
    My schedule is such that I will not get it out til this eve or 
Wednesday AM.
Sorry about the delay,
Jim B.

Bernard Aboba wrote:

> > 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?
>
>