Yes, this document is the main thing on the agenda.
On Jul 25, 2013, at 6:26 AM, Josh Howlett <Josh.Howlett@xxxxxx>
wrote:
> Section 3.2 of draft-wierenga-ietf-eduroam describes the issues presented
> by EAP's spartan support for error condition handling. Although these are
> described in the context of a particular roaming operator's experiences, I
> believe this is also likely to be true for other non-trivial deployments.
>
> To its credit this document (draft-ietf-emu-eap-tunnel-method) does
> address error handling more comprehensively than previous EAP methods, but
> I am not confident that it will yield error handling outcomes that could
> be understood and corrected by an end user. For example, from my
> understanding of the document, the most common failure modes (e.g.,
> incorrect password; account locked; backend database offline, etc) will
> all yield an "Inner_Method_Error". The other error messages are equally
> vague ("General_PKI_Error") or cryptic from an end user's perspective.
>
> Is this something that could be discussed in Berlin next week?
>
> Josh.
>
> On 16/07/2013 15:19, "The IESG" <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> The IESG has received a request from the EAP Method Update WG (emu) to
>> consider the following document:
>> - 'Tunnel EAP Method (TEAP) Version 1'
>> <draft-ietf-emu-eap-tunnel-method-07.txt> as Proposed Standard
>>
>> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
>> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
>> ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2013-07-30. Exceptionally, comments may be
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>>
>> Abstract
>>
>>
>> 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) protocol 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The file can be obtained via
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-emu-eap-tunnel-method/
>>
>> IESG discussion can be tracked via
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-emu-eap-tunnel-method/ballot/
>>
>>
>> The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D:
>>
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1902/
>>
>>
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