eap Mailing List: FW: I-D ACTION:draft-arkko-eap-service-identity-auth-02.txt

[Jari Arkko (jari.arkko]

FYI. This is a small update. Changes include e.g. specifying that
EAP and EAP method layers should treat the information as opaque.

> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>
>
> 	Title		: Authenticated Service Information for the Extensible 
> 			  Authentication Protocol (EAP)
> 	Author(s)	: J. Arkko, P. Eronen
> 	Filename	: draft-arkko-eap-service-identity-auth-02.txt
> 	Pages		: 21
> 	Date		: 2005-5-3
> 	
> EAP is usually used in an arrangement where the actual service (such
>   as a wireless LAN access point) is separated from the authentication
>   server.  However, EAP itself does not have a concept of a service
>   identity or its parameters, and thus the client usually does not
>   authenticate any information about the service itself, even when a
>   mutually authenticating EAP method is used.  This document specifies
>   a backward compatible extension to popular EAP methods for
>   authenticating service related information, such as the identity and
>   type of the offered service.  A common parameter name space is
>   created in order to ensure that the same kinds of identifiers can be
>   authenticated independent of the choice of the EAP authentication
>   method.
>
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-arkko-eap-service-identity-auth-02.txt
>