On Jul 28, 2021, at 12:26 PM, Dan Harkins <dhark...@lounge.org> wrote:
>   Assuming everything can be assigned a username and a password is what is 
> wrong.

  Yes.  That was intended to be just an example, though.

> If you're concerned about *standard* EAP methods being used in *standard* ways
> then think about what we're proposing:
> 
>   1. No change to RFC 7170
>   2. No change to RFC 8773
>   3. No change to RFC 7250
>   4. a new name assignment from a name registry created by an I-D (soon to be 
> RFC)

  That's good.

  One of the goals of my draft was minimal changes to existing systems.  For 
example, the TEAP RFC is ~7 years old, and based on 3-4 years of work before 
that.  Yet it was only recently that people started implementing it, and 
discovered serious issues.

> So what we're proposing is using an EAP method in a way in it was defined and 
> using
> TLS to authenticate it using tools which were defined to authenticate TLS. 
> We're just
> proposing to use those tools in a new way.

  Yup.

  Alan DeKok.

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