eap Mailing List: Re: Re: Issue 251

[John Vollbrecht (jrv]

--On Tuesday, August 3, 2004 9:00 PM +0300 Jari Arkko 
<jari.arkko [at] piuha.net> wrote:

> Jim Burns wrote:
>
>
> > This paragraph does seem to contradict the early paragraph about
> > 'canned' successes. It would be impossible, from the peer, to
> > differentiate the behavior described above from a 'canned' success.
>
> My interpretation of this is that 'canned' means a success
> message sent immediately upon connection, i.e., without an
> identity request/response exchange. I think the document
> is clear on this.
>
> Of course, this would imply that whatever statements
> the document has on the optionality of the identity
> exchange, they don't apply to the case of sending
> a success before running an authentication method.
> That is, you can't omit BOTH the authentication
> method AND the identity exchange.
>
> How do others feel about this?