I have been looking at what would be required to using the PLASMA concepts
with ABFAB and I came up with the following issue which I think might need
to be addressed, despite the fact that the general issue is going to be
considered to be out of scope.

Consider the following scenario:

Client talks to the service provider (for me the key service) using SOAP
messages wrapped in GSS-API
The service provider says - I never heard of you but you say this ID service
will vouch for you.  Setup the  EAP connection.
Client talks to the ID service using EAP wrapped in GSS-API
Service provider says I need some additional information and you need to
talk to ID service 2 Setup the EAP connection
Client talks to ID service #2 using EAP wrapped in GSS-API
.... and so forth....

While we don't want to address the problems associated with the question of
dealing with the second EAP session, I think that we do need to have a
discussion on the naming convention that needs to occur for the attributes
of EAP session.  How would we distinguish between the same attribute for
each of the two different EAP sessions.  Remember that they may have
different attributes as the EAP methods could be separate.  Also I wonder if
we need to consider that the two different EAP sessions could be
authenticating to the same ID service, but named differently.

Jim


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