eap Mailing List: RE: draft-adrangi-eap-network-discovery-11.txt

[Glen Zorn (gwz) (gwz]

Bernard Aboba <mailto:aboba [at] internaut.com> supposedly scribbled:

> Can you review -11 and confirm that issues 287 and 293 have been
> resolved to your satisfaction? 

You betcha, this evening.

> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 21:29:40 -0700
> From: "Adrangi, Farid" <farid.adrangi [at] intel.com>
> To: Bernard Aboba <aboba [at] internaut.com>
> Cc: eap [at] frascone.com, iesg [at] ietf.org, Jari Arkko
>      <jari.arkko [at] piuha.net>, gwz [at] cisco.com, jsalowey [at] cisco.com,
>      Pasi.Eronen [at] nokia.com, Eugene Chang <eugene.chang [at] funk.com>
> Subject: RE: [eap] RE: FW: I-D
>     ACTION:draft-adrangi-eap-network-discovery-11.txt
> 
> I don't recall talking about an IESG note on the mailing list! 
> Anyhow, as to your strawman IESG note, it should be noted that the
> draft was reviewed and accepted by IEEE 802.11 (WIEN? - the WG has
> sent an official review report to IETF.  And also, I would remove
the
> last part of the note: "and it is not recommended for
implementation
> outside of 3GPP."  I think we should state the facts about the
> solution and let the implementer decided whether or not the
solution
> is suitable for their deployments outside 3GPP. BR,      
> Farid
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bernard Aboba [mailto:aboba [at] internaut.com]
>> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 5:08 PM
>> To: Adrangi, Farid
>> Cc: eap [at] frascone.com; iesg [at] ietf.org; Jari Arkko; gwz [at] 
>> cisco.com;
>> jsalowey [at] cisco.com; Pasi.Eronen [at] nokia.com; Eugene Chang
>> Subject: RE: [eap] RE: FW: I-D
>> ACTION:draft-adrangi-eap-network-discovery-11.txt
>> 
>> 
>> I think we were talking about an IESG note in addition to
material in
>> the applicability statement, no?
>> 
>> For example, EAP SIM contains the following note:
>> 
>> IESG Note
>> 
>> The EAP-SIM protocol was developed by 3GPP.  The documentation of
>> EAP-SIM is provided as information to the Internet community.
While
>> the EAP WG has verified that EAP-SIM is compatible with EAP as
>> defined in RFC 3748, no other review has been done, including
>> validation of the security claims. 
>> 
>> Here is a potential strawman note for the EAP Network Discovery
>> document: 
>> 
>>  EAP Network Discovery was developed by 3GPP.  Documentation is
>> provided as information to the Internet community.  While the
EAP WG
>> has verified that EAP Network Discovery is compatible with  EAP
as
>> defined in RFC 3748, no other review has been done, including
>> investigation of potential security issues.  There is work
underway
>> in IEEE 802.11 which may provide similar functionality,  enabling
an
>> EAP peer to determine network availability prior to  handoff.  As
a
>> result, the approach described in this document may  be
superceded by
>> future standards, and it is not recommended for  implementation
>> outside of 3GPP.

Hope this helps,

~gwz

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