I haven't read the draft, but note that the Moonshot implementation provides 
fast reauth based on Kerberos tickets.

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On 12/03/2012, at 11:16 PM, Rafa Marin Lopez <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Yinxing:
> 
> I have seen that you have also mentioned and described the problem of fast 
> re-authentication in your I-D. We have been just discussing as you may have 
> noticed.
> 
> Although I am still in favor to define a general problem statement for this 
> in ABFAB before going to solution space, I must say that here in UMU we have 
> been thinking about a possible solution for providing this fast 
> re-authentication procedure, which may have some similarities with yours.
> 
> Basically, since GSS-EAP is used in ABFAB to provide authentication, our idea 
> is to use ERP (RFC 5296) (and the associated infrastructure) to provide fast 
> re-authentication in ABFAB. After all, ERP is the standard to reduce the 
> authentication time in EAP-based authentications.
> 
> In this way, we could extend GSS-EAP or create a GSS-ERP mechanism to 
> transport ERP messages within GSS tokens. Something like:
> 
> 
>  1. Initiator --> Acceptor:  GSS-EAP (EAP Initiate/Re-auth(SEQ, keyName-NAI,
>                                 cryptosuite,Auth-tag*)) 
>    1a. Acceptor --> ER-Server: AAA-Request{Authenticator-Id,
>                                 EAP Initiate/Re-auth(SEQ,keyName-NAI,
>                                 cryptosuite,Auth-tag*)
> 
>    2. ER-Server --> Acceptor: AAA-Response{rMSK,
>                                 EAP-Finish/Re-auth(SEQ,keyName-NAI,
>                                 cryptosuite,[CB-Info],Auth-tag*)
> 
>    2b. Acceptor --> Initiator: GSS-EAP (EAP-Finish/Re-auth(SEQ,keyName-NAI,
>                                 cryptosuite,[CB-Info],Auth-tag*))
> 
> 
> Even the ER-Server could be placed near the server (local ER server) reducing 
> the travel time of the messages. 
> 
> Obviously this is just an idea, which needs to be elaborated and discussed. 
> In fact, as I said, I think it would be better to start defining a problem 
> statement, requirements etc... for fast re-authentication in ABFAB. UMU would 
> be willing to work on that.
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> El 12/03/2012, a las 10:18, [email protected] escribió:
> 
>> 
>> Hi, all 
>> 
>>   An updated version of Federated Cross-Layer Access 
>> (draft-wei-abfab-fcla-02) is posted. 
>>   The major changes is in claust 4 : 
>>  - 4. message flow 
>>  - 4.1 fast re-authentication 
>>  - 4.2 secure data sharing 
>> 
>> here is the draft: 
>>   http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-wei-abfab-fcla-02.txt 
>> 
>> Any comments are appreciated! 
>> 
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