The IESG has approved the following document: - 'State Machines for Protocol for Carrying Authentication for Network Access (PANA) ' <draft-ietf-pana-statemachine-12.txt> as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network Access Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jari Arkko and Ralph Droms. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pana-statemachine-12.txt Technical Summary This document defines the state machines for Protocol Carrying Authentication for Network Access (PANA) [RFC5191]. There are state machines for the PANA client (PaC) and for the PANA Authentication Agent (PAA). Each state machine is specified through a set of variables, procedures and a state transition table. Working Group Summary The WG has reviewed this document at length. It has also been presented and discussed at several WG meetings. Two WG last calls have also been run on it. The WG is satisfied with the quality of the document and there is consensus on publishing it. Document Quality Implemenrations of PANA protocol itself exist. This I-D is intended to be published as an Informational RFC. It captures the state machine of the PANA protocol. The document was revised per AD review comments in March 2009. Personnel The responsible Area Director is Jari Arkko. The document shepherd is Basavaraj Patil. RFC Editor Note Please add the following text the last paragraph of Section 7.3: NEW: Note that this specification does not support silently discarding EAP messages. They are treated as fatal errors instead. This may have an impact on denial-of-service resistance. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
