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

[Nakhjiri Madjid-MNAKHJI1 (Madjid.Nakhjiri]

-----Original Message-----
From: Lakshminath Dondeti [mailto:ldondeti [at] qualcomm.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 11:58 PM
To: Quinn Li; Cao Zhen
Cc: eap [at] frascone.com
Subject: Re: [eap] Questions for draft-barany-eap-gee-01

Hi,

GEE is not a general purpose authentication protocol.  It is a 
generic EAP encapsulation mechanism that allows demultiplexing of 
multiple simultaneous EAP conversations between a peer and an 
authenticator.  You say that the draft does describe the MVNO 
scenarios well, so I guess we can safely conclude that it does its job
then.

EAP is not used for IMS or Mobile IPv6 authentication, is it?  So, in 
simple terms, it's not the purpose of the GEE draft to specify 
support for those services.

Madjid>>EAP is being used for non-cellular access into IMS.
EAP is being considered for MIP6 bootstrapping.
If the idea is to standardize the usage, then it should not be
customized for a specific use case.