eap Mailing List: Re: Re: Channel Binding

[Jari Arkko (jari.arkko]

Yoshihiro Ohba wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:15:21AM -0700, Bernard Aboba wrote:
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>>Perhaps the right way to do this is to describe the effects of different 
>>approaches on the architecture.  For example, the exiting mechanism 
>>requires changes to EAP methods but not to the AAA server;  Yoshi's 
>>proposal requires changes on the AAA server, but not to methods. 
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>Question: What functionality is part of AAA server here?  If EAP
>server implementation is also part of AAA server, I'd say both
>mechanism requires some changes on the AAA server.
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It seems that AAA server (the box, not a layer) is going to be impacted
in any case, as is the client. What we can talk about is whether the
NAS is impacted or not.

--Jari