eap Mailing List: RE: Strawman -10/EMSK deletion requirement?

[Avi Lior (avi]

Joe and All,

I totally agree with Joe.

AAA is a protocol that transports and cant realy cache anything in the
case of RADIUS which is stateless.

So any caching has to be outside AAA or with AAA (but Diameter only). 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Salowey, Joe [mailto:jsalowey [at] cisco.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:59 PM
> To: Narayanan, Vidya; Avi Lior; Jari Arkko
> Cc: eap [at] frascone.com
> Subject: RE: [eap] Strawman -10/EMSK deletion requirement?
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> > I guess when you say EAP Authentication Server, it is a bit vague 
> > about whether that is the EAP layer or AAA layer. I'm not sure if 
> > there is value in clarifying this or if it makes more sense 
> to leave 
> > it to implementation.
> >
> [Joe] I'm pretty convinced it is in EAP.  In the pictures the 
> AAA layer appears to carry communication between AAA client 
> and AAA server, I do not think this is where the EMSK belongs. 
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