eap Mailing List: Re: Questions for draft-barany-eap-gee-01

[Lakshminath Dondeti (ldondeti]

At 01:13 PM 6/13/2006, Alper Yegin wrote:
> > With your last statement, are you saying that there is another way to
> > demultiplex multiple parallel EAP exchanges?  If so, I would like to
> > read about it.   Please share the reference.  Thanks.
>
> I don't see any inherent problems with an EAP lower layer performing such
> multiplexing, if they are really after such an optimization.

The advantage of doing this at the IETF is to design it at the EAP 
level and allow use by multiple lower layers and multiple 
purposes.  The original authors had one use case, Joe and Parviz 
joined us with another use case.  Designing support for multiple EAP 
conversations is not new at the IETF.  All that GEE is doing is 
adding support for parallel authentications.

> Especially not
> to the extent that one needs to design a new layer to solve the problem.

No, GEE is *not* another "layer."  If EAP had an extra field in the 
header, GEE might not have been needed.

best,
Lakshminath

> Alper