eap Mailing List: Re: Basic facts about EAP

[Jari Arkko (jari.arkko]

Artur Hecker wrote:

> Perhaps we could talk about a "service access control system" instead. 
> The service might be a network link with

This is a good name, and so is "user" and "service providing entity".

Note: right now EAP is used for network access, and even most
of the new applications of EAP can be thought of as network network
access or at least being network access related, such as IKEv2 VPNs,
mobility services, or DHCP. Some prior ideas for non-network access
related issues such as EAP in HTTP were abandoned. But we
also have some ongoing discussions to extend the use of EAP,
mainly in SNMP.

> Historically, AAA is just a convenient way to centralize the 
> administration of the dispersed NASes :-)

Yes.

--Jari