eap Mailing List: Re: [Issue 248] Comments on EAP state machine v4

[Florent Bersani (florent.bersani]

Nick Petroni wrote:

> Florent and all,
>
> As Monday 7/19 is the cut-off for document submission, I would like to ask
> for help in resolving as much of the remaining issues as possible in the
> state machine document. Here is a list of necessary changes as I see them
> for Issue 248. Please let me know how these look in principle and
> contribute text if possible. I also will attempt to contribute text over
> the next couple of days.
>
> Thanks,
> nick
>
>
> Comment #12 - Technical
>  Supersede by the resolution of Issue 251 (TBD).
>  
It would be great if some luminaries could enlighten us on this!!!!

Florent, who hates to spend time to educate others but loves being 
educated ;-)

> Comment #12 - Technical
>
> This one is stupid but what happens, according to Figure 4, when the 
> standalone authenticator fails directly, i.e. starts by INITIALIZE, 
> transitions to SELECT_ACTION where Policy.getDecision replies FAILURE 
> and thus transitions to FAILURE - in the FAILURE state, I bet there is 
> some problem with eapReqData = buildFailure(currentId) since 
> currentId=NONE