I agree too.

Lionel 

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Alper Yegin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Envoyé : jeudi 19 avril 2007 08:25
> À : 'Yoshihiro Ohba'; [email protected]
> Objet : RE: [Pana] Piggybacking EAP in PAN
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Most of the benefits are realized when the PaC's "answer" can 
> carry "EAP response". 
> 
> The case where PAA needs to send PAN and can hang on to it 
> until it receives the next EAP Request seems less likely and 
> possibly not worth the complication.
> 
> Alper
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yoshihiro Ohba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:01 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Pana] Piggybacking EAP in PAN
> > 
> > In Section 4.1:
> > 
> > "
> >    EAP messages are carried in PANA-Auth-Request messages.
> >    PANA-Auth-Answer messages are simply used to acknowledge 
> receipt of
> >    the requests.  As an optimization, a PANA-Auth-Answer message MAY
> >    include the EAP message.  This optimization SHOULD NOT 
> be used when
> >    it takes time to generate the EAP message (due to, e.g., 
> intervention
> >    of human input), in which case returning an 
> PANA-Auth-Answer message
> >    without piggybacking an EAP message can avoid unnecessary
> >    retransmission of the PANA-Auth-Request message.
> > "
> > 
> > I think this piggybacking is allowed for PAN generated by PaC only.
> > Piggybacking EAP for PAN generated by PAA should not allowed, 
> > otherwise the protocol operation can be complex.
> > 
> > Yoshihiro Ohba
> > 
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