On 5/23/2011 7:45 PM, Stefan Winter wrote: > Hi, > >> two suggestions for the new name (assuming that the Deciders establish >> that a new type is a good idea), just to get the ball rolling: Tunneled >> Extensible Authentication Method (TEAM, an oldie but goody) and Internet >> (or IETF) Tunneled EAP Method (ITEM). > > Crazy thought: how about EAP-TUNNEL? > > Yes, I know, not an acronym, just a plain old English word which makes > sense on its own - which probably breaks several "but it needs to be a > four-letter acronym, preferably a nicely sounding one, with a strange > expansion which is obviously reverse-engineered from the acronym to > sound cool" policies.
Actually, I was pleasantly surprised that "Internet Tunneled EAP Method" turned out to be ITEM but in any case...I'm sure that there is no policy except maybe having a little fun ;-). Maybe that should be against policy? I do think that EAP-TUNNEL is both grammatically incorrect (since "tunnel" is a common noun it shouldn't be capitalized, let alone ALL CAPS :-). Also, I wonder if it isn't a bit too generic: there are a whole bunch of PEAP clones (sorry, tunneled methods) already: TTLS, FAST, etc., all of which could be reasonably referred to as "EAP TUNNEL". ...
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