On Wed, May 25, 2011 12:23 am, Stefan Winter wrote: > Hi, > >> 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 :-). > > I didn't want to violate more common thinking about naming by using > non-capitals! EAP-Tunnel would be just as fine for me. > >> 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". > > That's right. We should prefix it as "*/the/*" EAP Tunnel to make people > aware that it's the one-and-only type to be used. Yes, I'm actually > dreaming that the deployed world out there would settle to use just one > in a distant future...
Let me offer my suggestion again: Extensible Tunneled Authentication or EAP-ETA. "What's the ETA?" Well the way this group progresses it's probably about...wait, sorry, ETA is the shiny new fantabulous EAP method from EMU! regards, Dan. _______________________________________________ Emu mailing list Emu@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/emu
