The IESG has approved the following document: - 'PT-EAP: Posture Transport (PT) Protocol For EAP Tunnel Methods' (draft-ietf-nea-pt-eap-09.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Network Endpoint Assessment Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Stephen Farrell and Sean Turner. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-nea-pt-eap/ Technical Summary This document specifies PT-EAP, an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) based Posture Transport (PT) protocol designed to be used only inside a TLS protected EAP tunnel method. The document also describes the intended applicability of PT-EAP. Working Group Summary In the call for proposals for Posture Transport (PT) specifications, there were two submissions for an EAP-based PT: one using an EAP method within an EAP tunnel method, and the other using a TLV format within an EAP tunnel method. Many discussions were had in the WG on the pros and cons of each approach. No consensus could be reached. Hence, the AD of the Working Group (Stephen Farrell) made the selection with the agreement that the WG would abide by the decision. Stephen selected the EAP method approach in a message to the NEA WG dated 24 Aug 2011 (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/nea/current/msg01187.html). The WG then adopted the EAP method proposal as a WG document, and followed the normal process from there. There is WG consensus to move this document forward. Document Quality There are no known vendor implementations of this particular specification, but there are existing implementations of an EAP method which is similar to what is currently specified. This document was reviewed by several people in the EMU WG, and no objections were raised. Personnel Susan Thomson is the Document Shepherd. Stephen Farrell is the Area Director. RFC Editor Note - draft-ietf-nea-asokan has been published as RFC 6813 - draft-ietf-nea-pt-tls has been published as RFC 6876
