RE: [dhcwg] [New I-D] DHCP User-based Authentication

[Amy Zhao <zhaoyuping at huawei.com>]

Hello!
    Thanks!

     We just use DHCP to supply user-credential(username/password) for AAA.
 
    Sorry, maybe this text need to be modified. :-).

B.R.
Amy 



 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yoshihiro Ohba [mailto:yohba at tari.toshiba.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:35 PM
> To: Amy Zhao
> Cc: dhcwg at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [dhcwg] [New I-D] DHCP User-based Authentication
> 
> A fundamental question.
> 
> Is this WG chartered for developing a solution for network 
> access authentication and authorization other than developing 
> authentication mechanisms for DHCP?
> 
> I am asking this because Introduction of 
> draft-zhao-dhc-user-authentication-00.txt says:
> 
> "
>    An authentication mechanism for DHCPv4 protocol messages was
>    developed in [RFC3118].This allows DHCP clients and servers to
>    authenticate each other.  Our purpose differs in that we want to
>    authenticate and authorize a user before he accesses a provider
>    network, to apply policy to customize this access connection to
>    account for the service.
> "
> 
> Best regards,
> Yoshihiro Ohba
> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:07:17AM +0800, Amy Zhao wrote:
> > Hi, All:
> > 
> > We posted a new I-D as follows.  
> > 
> > It's a pretty rough draft  and we need your feedback.
> > 
> >  Any comments / advices will be highly appreciated!
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > B.R.
> > Amy
> > 
> > ------------------------------
> > 
> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
> > directories.
> > 
> > 
> > 	Title		: DHCP User-based Authentication
> > 	Author(s)	: Y. Zhao
> > 	Filename	: draft-zhao-dhc-user-authentication-00.txt
> > 	Pages		: 24
> > 	Date		: 2006-10-2
> > 	
> > This document defines an authentication mechanism to provide an 
> > authentication for a user in an access network by means of 
> dhcp.  The 
> > authentication mechanism described here couples DHCP to an 
> > authentication, authorization and accounting system (AAA), thus 
> > enabling users to supply user credentials for AAA via DHCP.
> > 
> > 
> > A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> > 
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-zhao-dhc-user-authentication
> > -00.tx
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