The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Tunnel EAP Method (TEAP) Version 1' (draft-ietf-emu-eap-tunnel-method-10.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the EAP Method Update Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Sean Turner and Stephen Farrell. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-emu-eap-tunnel-method/ Technical Summary This document defines the Tunnel Extensible Authentication Protocol (TEAP) version 1. TEAP is a tunnel based EAP method that enables secure communication between a peer and a server by using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) to establish a mutually authenticated tunnel. Within the tunnel, Type-Length-Value (TLV) objects are used to convey authentication related data between the EAP peer and the EAP server. Working Group Summary At the start of this work there were different proposals. Through a long process the working group settled on the current approach and document. There is good consensus from the working group on this document. Document Quality This document has had review from different groups including EMU, ABFAB, NEA and RADEXT. Personnel Alan DeKok is the document Shepherd. Sean Turner is the responsible AD.
