On 8/10/2011 12:31 PM, Joe Salowey wrote:

> At the meeting in Quebec we discussed removing attributes specific to 
> particular media types or lower layers and including recommendations for a 
> small number of generally useful attributes in the draft.  
> 
> The attribute that seems to be most useful would be one that indicates what 
> protocol is carrying the EAP conversation between the EAP peer and 
> authenticator.  Its not clear to me if there is an existing attribute that 
> meets this need.  It seems that there are the following contenders:
> 
> NAS-Port-Type (RFC-2865)  - this attribute contains  the physical type port 
> that is carrying the EAP conversation.  It has values for things like 
> ethernet, 802.11,802.16, various flavors of PPPoE, etc.  Since it represents 
> a physical port It does not have values for higher layer protocols such as 
> IKEv2 or PANA.
> 
> Tunnel-Type (RFC-2868) - this attribute is used for setting up compulsory 
> tunnels and contains a value for IPSEC ESP tunnel.  It's not clear to me if 
> this would be suitable to indicate IKEv2.
> 
> EAP-Lower-Layer (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-aboba-radext-wlan-13) -  
> this is an draft attribute designed to indicate the EAP lower layer.   It 
> contains several values to cover many of the EAP lower layers.  IT does cover 
> IKEv2 and PANA.  Its likely that list values need to be augmented and cleaned 
> up.  
> 
> NAS-Port-Type and Tunnel-Type seem to have limitations. My initial suggestion 
> is the following:
> 
> - Define the EAP-Lower-Layer attribute in the document

Since the draft you cite seems to be fairly evolved (at least it's been
around a long time ;-), is there any reason not to simply publish it?

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