On Aug 10, 2011, at 1:41 AM, Glen Zorn wrote:

> 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?
> 
[Joe] I don't think its ready for publication yet.  I think its only partially 
current with 802.1X-2010. 

> ...
> <gwz.vcf>

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