eap Mailing List: Re: +AFs-eap+AF0- Questions for draft-barany-eap-gee-01

[Quinn Li (quinn.liqin]

Hi Vidya,

On 6/14/06, Narayanan, Vidya <vidyan [at] qualcomm.com> wrote:
> GEE is not an authentication protocol, as you have correctly understood.
> Anything that requires parallel runs of two EAP sessions can use GEE -
> the only lower layer that doesn't need this is IKEv2 (since it does much
> beyond functioning just as an EAP lower layer). All other lower layers
> need a mechanism like GEE to demultiplex the parallel EAP exchanges.
> Examples of usage scenarios can be MVNO-based network access, device and
> user authentication, etc. The MVNO case has been identified as the one
> that immediately requires a solution - hence, GEEv0 has been tailored
> for this. However, the protocol has been written in an extensible manner
> (the current draft has details on how GEEv1 can extend the protocol for
> generic multiple EAP authentications) - so, future versions of GEE can
> support multiple EAP exchanges for other purposes as well.

I still wonder why there is a need for parallel EAP goes to same
authenticator except MVNO?

Thanks.

Best regards,
Qin