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

[Alper Yegin (alper.yegin]

> >I have read Issue 313, but I think it does not solve the SAP issue
for
> >PANA because PANA EP is not authenticator or even part of
> >authenticator.
> >
> >
> It could be, if you define authenticator = PAA + EP, or?

I have always perceived the "authenticator" as the node that hosts the
"EAP authenticator". We could say NAS = PAA + EAP + RADIUS_client + EP;
where we can see "EP" as a "NAS port".

Does this make sense?

Alper