eap Mailing List: Issue 371: Session-Id calculation

[Bernard Aboba (bernard_aboba]

Issue 371: Session-Id Calculation
Submitter name: Bernard Aboba
Submitter email address: aboba [at] internaut.com
Date Submitted: June 24, 2006
Reference:
Document: KEYING-13
Comment type: 'T'echnical
Priority: S
Section: Appendix A
Rationale/Explanation of issue:

For methods allocated with the standard EAP space (TLS, AKA, SIM) Appendix A 
states that the Session-Id is constructed as follows:

"Session-Id is the concatenation of the Expanded EAP Type Code (including 
the Type,
Vendor-Id and Vendor-Type fields defined in [RFC3748] Section 5.7) with 
the..."

Since these methods have no Vendor-Id or Vendor-Type fields, are these 
fields included or not?

My recommendation is to replace the text as follows:

"Session-Id is the concatenation of the EAP Type Code (<insert Type Code 
here>) with the..."