eap Mailing List: RE: Basic facts about EAP

[Bernard Aboba (aboba]

> And there's no single correct system, either. For instance, it's
> perfectly OK to have a system where both EAP server and RADIUS server
> are considered to be parts of a single logical entity. But nothing
> in the components (EAP or RADIUS) implies or forces this: it is
> this unnamed system that is making this definition. But since we
> don't have good names for these systems, it's easy to get a
> disagreement when two people are, in fact, talking of two different
> systems that happen to use EAP (or are arguing that there is or
> should be a single correct system, and no other systems are allowed
> to use EAP).

Do you have a suggestion for how we might clarify the usage?