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> > [BA] Exactly. It's just an applicability statement, not a prescription > > for world peace :) > > Sure: we need more than an applicability statement update to achieve > peace in the EAP world. But if an applicability statement update is all > we can work with, we could try and do our best in that one. [BA] The goal of an applicability statement to provide guidance as to the applicability of a particular standard. Using a marine analogy, it can say "it is ok to take a boat of this size out into the ocean", but it doesn't have to provide a detailed map of every harbor. So it seems like there is a need to address application-layer protocols that don't encode their identities in UTF-8 over the wire today. Is EAP applicable to these protocols? If so, is there something they need to be aware of? Going beyond that is probably for other documents, not this one. |