eap Mailing List: RE: RE: Comments on draft-adrangi-eap-network-discovery-07.txt

[Glen Zorn (gwz) (gwz]

Bari, Farooq <> supposedly scribbled:

> Hi Eugene,
> 
> All I can say is that you are not catching up on your weekend
emails
> but on last two years worth of discussions in EAP WG :)) on the
> draft. It is difficult  for me to understand why IESG has these
rules
> that practically reset everything that has happened with the draft
> since it got introduced long time back and require authors to
satisfy
> everyone again from the very beginning on  fundamental questions
that
> were dealt with longtime back and are hard to
explain/resolve/convey
> over emails...................       
> 
> A very brief response (which I am sure can not staisfy you and
> obviously can not because discussion on this topic is something
that
> has always taken a long time to converge) is, the draft does not
> mandate anything on  the part of the service provider. It is about
> ABNF. 

Here are some ideas: put the ABNF on a billboard in Times Square;
buy full-page ads in the New York Times, Der Spiegel, etc.  There
are more, none of which involves using the IETF as little more than
a medium for announcement.

> The information on roaming partners is just a hint for the
> client device about hotspot operators own roaming partners, 

No. it's not; it's a command.  If the client doesn't accept your
"hint" it will be disconnected, right?  Further, the fact that the
AAA proxy or EAP server or whatever is capable of providing a useful
hint at all means that it knows a route to the home network.  Why
send a hint at all, then, instead of just forwarding the message?  

...

Hope this helps,

~gwz

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