On Nov 7, 2019, at 12:30 PM, Owen Friel (ofriel) <ofr...@cisco.com> wrote: >> [Joe] Is EAP Identity Synonymous with the NAI? > > [ofriel] I'd also like to definitively understand this. Neither RFC3748 or > RFC7542 are clear on this. Should this be an errata to clarify.. somewhere?
The EAP Identity can largely be anything, so long as it is UTF-8. The *recommendation* in RFC 7542 is to make it an NAI. But that isn't mandated anywhere. I'm not sure there's any errata required. > Two other questions on RFC3748. Section 5.1 states: > " It is RECOMMENDED that the Identity Response be used primarily for > routing purposes and selecting which EAP method to use. " > > Is it defined anywhere how the Identity is used for EAP method selection? It is absolutely not mentioned anywhere. For the simple reason that EAP provides for method negotiation. We don't need to overload the Identity field. The issue we're running into here is not about EAP method selection. It's about *TLS* method selection (PSK vs certs). And that officially has little to do with EAP. > Or is this EAP method specific and should be defined in the method specific > draft? No EAP document should recommend overloading Identity in order to do EAP method selection. > E.g. we have documented in > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lear-eap-teap-brski-05#section-5 that: > > " A device that has not been bootstrapped at all SHOULD send an > identity of teap-bootstrap@TBD1. " > > If we register that "teap-bootstrap@TBD1" with IANA, then it could be the > mechanism by which the peer tells the server that it wants to use TEAP. If > the server does not support TEAP, it will return an error response. The discussion prior to IETF 105 was that we should use the ".arpa" domain: https://www.iana.org/domains/arpa That domain is explicitly intended for this kind of negotiation. Note that using ".arpa" still isn't EAP method selection. It's instead signalling something else. > For routing, the Identity provided includes a realm and it could be > anonymous: e.g. "@example.com". If the server cannot route to that domain, it > returns an error. i.e. an EAP Failure message. > EAP provides no mechanism to return an error code to the peer. How could we > signal in EAP the error difference between routing vs EAP method unsupported > failures? Or can we at all? EAP provides for a NAK for negotiation, and a Notification packet for signalling errors or messages. Unfortunately, most supplicants don't support Notification. And the ones that do won't show Notification messages to the end user. Alan DeKok. _______________________________________________ Emu mailing list Emu@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/emu
