The document should also state in the security considerations section
that the identity in the identity response is not necessarily related to
the identity authenticated in EAP-TLS and should not be relied upon for
any access control or accounting purposes.

Here is some proposed new text for Section 2.4:

"As noted in [RFC3748] Section 5.1:

  It is RECOMMENDED that the Identity Response be used primarily for
  routing purposes and selecting which EAP method to use.  EAP
  Methods SHOULD include a method-specific mechanism for obtaining
  the identity, so that they do not have to rely on the Identity
  Response.

As part of the TLS negotiation, the server presents a certificate to
the peer, and if mutual authentication is requested, the peer
presents a certificate to the server.  EAP-TLS therefore provides
a mechanism for determining both the peer identity (Peer-Id in [KEYFRAME])
and server identity (Server-Id in [KEYFRAME]).
Since the identity presented in the Identity Response need
not be related to the identity presented in the peer certificate,
EAP-TLS implementations SHOULD NOT require that they be identical,
and SHOULD NOT use the identity presented in the Identity Response
for access control or accounting purposes."



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