Re: [HOKEY] 2nd draft of new hokey charter

[Rafa Marin Lopez <rafa at um.es>]

Hi Tina,

I have a couple of comments/questions about the charter
> 4) Assistance to the 802.21a group in specifying the integration of EAP
> pre-authentication with IEEE 802.21a. The Hokey Working Group shall 
> perform
> tasks that are complementary to and do not duplicate work being done 
> in IEEE
> 802.21a.
I was wondering what kind of "assistance to the 802.21a group in 
specifying the integration of EAP
pre-authentication with IEEE 802.21a" is required?.
> 6) A specification for NAS-Authenticator interaction. NAS interaction 
> can be
> used to release resources in the old NAS and achieve faster initiation of
> authentication. Related work in external SDOs on authenticator/NAS
> interaction for re-authentication may be taken into consideration.
If I understood correctly from the last HOKEY WG meeting minutes (number 
9 in the minutes), the received comment was that this should be out of 
the scope of HOKEY, is that correct?.


On the other hand, I do not understand very well what it is the 
purpose/meaning of a specification for NAS-authenticator interaction. 
That is, I am not sure what it is trying to solve. Now, there is a 
change in the new text saying:

6) A specification for inter-authenticator interaction. Authenticator 
interaction can be
used to release resources in the old authenticator and achieve faster 
initiation of
authentication. Related work in external SDOs on authenticator
interaction for re-authentication may be taken into consideration.

Even with this change I am not able to understand the purpose. Moreover, 
does this change imply a change in the the scenarios and goals included 
in the slides presented about this topic in last IETF meeting?.

My apologies for the questions but I am trying to catch up with this.

Best regards.

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Rafael Marin Lopez
Dept. Information and Communications Engineering (DIIC)
Faculty of Computer Science-University of Murcia
30100 Murcia - Spain
Telf: +34968398501    e-mail: rafa at um.es
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