RE: [Emu] Re: Thoughts on Password-based EAP Methods

["Glen Zorn \(gwz\)" <gwz at cisco.com>]

Bernard Aboba <mailto:bernard_aboba at hotmail.com> allegedly scribbled on
Monday, April 02, 2007 3:42 PM:

>> Part of the problem with EAP methods is that people should have
>> started to standardize them within the IETF several years ago.
>> Unfortunately, there was no interest by some of the EAP method
>> authors nor from the EAP WG chairs to allow that.
> 
> In fact, the IETF was on track to standardize EAP methods back as
> recently as 2001, within the PPPEXT WG.  It was as part of that
> program that EAP-TLS was first published as an Experimental RFC, and
> EAP-TTLSv0 was put on the standards track.   
> 
> The decision to remove standards track EAP methods from the PPPEXT WG
> charter was made by the IESG, not by the authors of EAP methods, or
> the EAP WG chairs.  As I recall, there was considerable opposition to
> that decision at the time.   

I was in favor of it at the time, as I recall; however, I imagined that
the project would move to the EAP WG, not drop into a black hole.

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