Re: [Pana] pana-preauth-06 available

[Yoshihiro Ohba <yoshihiro.ohba at toshiba.co.jp>]

Basavaraj.Patil at nokia.com wrote:
> Hi Yoshi,
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> On 6/27/09 7:21 PM, "ext Yoshihiro Ohba" <yoshihiro.ohba at toshiba.co.jp>
> wrote:
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> > Changes:
> >
> > - Revised definition of "Serving Network".
> >
> > - Added an informational reference for 802.21 as an example mechanism
> > for discovering PaC and CPAA to discover each other.
> >
> > Basavaraj questioned about the need for PAA-initiated pre-auth, and I
> > agreed with his comment. But
> > PAA-initiated pre-auth still remains, based on Alper's comment "PANA
> > already supports PAA-initiated auth. So, unless we do anything special
> > (to eliminate this case), it comes for free."
> >     
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> Even though PANA supports PAA-initiated auth, I do not believe this is
> applicable in the case where the target network to which the host is not
> even attached would be able to trigger authentication.
> So while the PAA-initiated auth makes sense in the regular PANA use case, I
> don't see this as being valid in the scenario described in the pre-auth I-D.
>   

The target network can trigger PAA-initiated preauth without requiring 
MN to attach to the target network, with the help of the serving 
network. For example, 802.21 network-to-network handover command allows 
the serving network to indicate the target network about a possible 
handover of the MN.

Yoshihiro Ohba

> So I would recommend dropping this scenario from the I-D.
>
> -Raj
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>   
> > Best Regards,
> > Yoshihiro Ohba
> >
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