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

[Salowey, Joe (jsalowey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avi Lior [mailto:avi [at] bridgewatersystems.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 9:03 PM
> To: Salowey, Joe; Narayanan, Vidya; Jari Arkko
> Cc: eap [at] frascone.com
> Subject: RE: [eap] Strawman -10/EMSK deletion requirement?
> 
> 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). 

[Joe] I think a AAA server is typically composed of several components.
One of these can be a key holder.  I don't see why you couldn't define
new functionality in RADIUS to interact with the key holder (other than
the fact that it seems to be difficult to define anything new in
RADIUS). 

> 
> > -----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?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > > 
> > > 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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