eap Mailing List: Re: hopefully final changes for draft-ietf-eap-keying

[Bernard_Aboba (Bernard_Aboba]

Dan Harkins said:

> As I said in a separate post, what 11r stated it wanted from the IETF when
> it removed a secure 3 party protocol from its draft was not a relaxation 
> on
> key sharing but a secure 3 party protocol.

Did 11r ever send a liaison to this effect?

I do recall a discussion on this, but I don't think that the letter was ever 
sent.

The typical way to move forward in such as case would be to publish the 11r 
3rd party
protocol design.   That is what we did with RFC 4017, which was judged to be
outside the realm of IEEE 802.11i, since it dealt with EAP.

Since the development of the EKMF was coordinated quite closely with IEEE 
802.11
(EAP WG even had a joint interim meeting with 11), it should not be 
surprising
that the EKMF and 11r are generally in sync.  However, it took a while for 
11r to
get into sponsor ballot, so that it was not possible to include examples 
from it within the
EKMF document.   At this point, fixing that would require too many changes. 
In any case,
the 11r document is largely self-explanatory.