eap Mailing List: Re: reviewers for new methods

[Thomas Otto (t.otto]

Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 20:47 schrieb Jari Arkko:
> Hello folks,
>
> We have received expert review requests for EAP PSK,
> EAP IKEv2, and EAP Smartcard Type. We are looking
> for volunteers to work on these reviews. 

I have a problem with the following. There are some
mature EAP methods, which want to proof their abilities
in real world deployments, but can not do this because
no expert is found to review the protocol.

Who is now an expert? I guess of course the authors
of the respective EAP method, which leads to the question:
May the authors volunteer self or must the reviewer be some
unbiased person? 

Assume the authors should abstain from review, then 
*who* is an expert? Which skills, grades are needed?

> Let me or Bernard know if you are interested. 

> The purpose of 
> the reviews is to ensure that the said methods do
> not "break EAP", i.e., they conform to RFC 3748
> requirements for methods. 

This kind of review is what we are talking about. 
The Review Template is available here:
http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/EAP/template.txt

That is, if the EAP method meet all criterias in the 
catalogue, then all obstacles are overcome and an
IANA EAP Type Number can be assigned. (Right? Please
correct me..)

Then, the method can be used in real world deployments
(because supplicant and AAA both recognize the method by 
this Type Number) and authors and users are perfectly
happy.