Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

[Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf at mit.edu>]

>>>>> "Alper" == Alper Yegin <alper.yegin at yegin.org> writes:

    >> > Yes, that individual I-D is productized as a proprietary
    >> protocol by one > company (Cisco).
    >> 
    >> As I understand it, EAP over UDP is one of the items proposed
    >> for standardization in the NEA WG.

    Alper> You misunderstood it, despite the clear text in their
    Alper> charter:

    Alper> ...

    Alper>   Requirements need to be defined for an EAP over L3
    Alper> transport for L3 access scenarios.

I don't think he misunderstood.  IT may not be in their charter, but
they definitely did want to standardize EAP over UDP in at least some
versions of NEA.

My question is more why do they need EAP in situations where they are
not running at the link layer than why do they want or not want PANA.

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