Hi,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yoav Nir" <y...@checkpoint.com>
To: "Qin Wu" <sunse...@huawei.com>
Cc: <ipsec@ietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [IPsec] New I-D: draft-nir-ipsecme-erx-00


> 
> On May 4, 2011, at 4:50 AM, Qin Wu wrote:
> 
>>>> - I am missing the "authenticated peer identity", which I would assume 
>>>> should arrive from the AAA server. This should be the basis of RFC4301 
>>>> policy decisions on the IKE gateway. Does ERP provide this identity?
>>> 
>>> The EAP-Initiate/Re-auth packet carries a keyName-NAI TLV, but that is sent 
>>> from the client (or "peer") to the authentication server through the 
>>> gateway. (section 5.3.2 of the bis document)
>>> The EAP-Finish/Re-auth packet also carries a keyName-NAI TLV, and that is 
>>> sent from the authentication server through the gateway to the client.
>>> But these don't really help, because the username part of NAI is the 64-bit 
>>> EMSKname, which is not directly related to user name.
>>> However, these messages come within an Access-Accept packet from the RADIUS 
>>> server, and those include a proper user name.
>> 
>> [Qin]: If you are talking about the second identity specified in section 6.4 
>> of RFC5998, I think, unlike EAP, ERP does not provide such identity.
>> ERP only define two types: one is Re-auth-Start, the other is Re-Auth.
>> 
>> KeyName-NAI TLV defined in RFC5296 and RFC5296bis more looks like the first 
>> idenity described in section 6.4 of RFC5998.
>> As decribed in section 5.1 of RFC5296,
>> "
>>     When an ERP-capable authenticator receives the EAP-Initiate/
>>      Re-auth message from a peer, it copies the contents of the
>>                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>      keyName-NAI into the User-Name attribute of RADIUS [13]. 
>>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> "
> 
> But what does the RADIUS send in the User-Name attribute of Access-Accept?  
> How does the Authenticator know who the user is?  The Authenticator needs the 
> true identity to make policy decisions.

[Qin]: I assume username part of KeyName-NAI will be regarded by RADIUS server 
as User-Name during authentication.
Also I think it is not necessarily to couple  authorization with authentication.

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