eap Mailing List: RE: Issue: Use of term lower layer

[Salowey, Joe (jsalowey]

> 
> >---
> >Change
> >
> >"EAP keying material and parameters provided to a lower layer other
> >   than AAA MUST NOT be transported to another entity."
> >
> >To
> >
> >"EAP keying material and parameters provided to a lower 
> layer MUST NOT 
> >be transported to another entity."
> >  
> >
> Seems to prohibit distributed authenticators, including 
> 802.11r. I'd be OK with this if we didn't exclude 
> transportation of keys derived from the provided keys.
>
[Joe] OK, but I think the original text would cause problems with .11r
as well.  In any case I'm OK with the lower layer doing what ever it
wants with the keys once it has them.  I think what we want to avoid is
the same keys and parameters being sent to more than one lower
layer/application.