eap Mailing List: RE: Proposed Resolution to Issue 326: Identifiers

[Salowey, Joe (jsalowey]

OK 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernard Aboba [mailto:bernard_aboba [at] hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 8:12 PM
> To: eap [at] frascone.com
> Subject: [eap] Proposed Resolution to Issue 326: Identifiers
> 
> The text of Issue 326 is enclosed below.  The proposed 
> resolution is as 
> follows:
> 
> In Section 1, change:
> 
> "The combination of the Peer-ID and Server-ID uniquely specifies the
> endpoints of the EAP method exchange."
> 
> To:
> 
> "The combination of the Peer-ID and Server-ID may uniquely specify the
> endpoints of the EAP method exchange when they are provided."
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------
> Issue 326: Identifiers
> Submitter name: Joe Salowey
> Submitter email address: jsalowey [at] cisco.com
> Date Submitted: December 1, 2005
> Reference:
> Document: Keying-08
> Comment type: T
> Priority: 1
> Section: 1
> Rationale/Explanation of issue:
> 
> "  EAP methods also MAY export method-specific peer and server
>    identifiers (peer-ID and server-ID), a method-specific EAP
>    conversation identifier known as the Method-ID, and the lifetime of
>    the exported keys, known the Key-Lifetime.   EAP methods MAY also
>    support the import and export of Channel Bindings.  New EAP method
>    specifications MUST define the Peer-ID, Server-ID and 
> Method-ID. The
>    combination of the Peer-ID and Server-ID uniquely specifies the
>    endpoints of the EAP method exchange."
> 
> It seems that additional data associated with the identity should be
> exported to satisfy section 1.3.  Suggestion is to add this and call
> them identity attributes.
> 
> In this paragraph it states that the "Peer-ID and Server-ID uniquely
> specifies the  endpoints of the EAP method exchange", however 
> further down 
> it states
> that these quantities may be null.  This is contradictory.  Suggested
> modification to above text:
> 
> "The combination of the Peer-ID and Server-ID may uniquely specify the
> endpoints of the EAP method exchange if the method supports 
> unique IDs."
> 
> 
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