Hi Jouni and all, Getting back to 7170 errata.
You wrote: > Section 3.3.1 says: > > EAP method messages are carried within EAP-Payload TLVs defined in > Section 4.2.10. If more than one method is going to be executed in > the tunnel, then upon method completion, the server MUST send an > Intermediate-Result TLV indicating the result. > > It should say: > > EAP method messages are carried within EAP-Payload TLVs defined in > Section 4.2.10. Upon method completion, the server MUST send an > Intermediate-Result TLV indicating the result. > > Notes: > > Description of whether Intermediate-Result TLV is supposed to be used in the > case where only a single inner EAP authentication method is used. Section > 3.3.1 says "more than one method is going to be executed in the tunnel, then > upon method completion, the server MUST send an Intermediate-Result TLV > indicating the result", Section 3.3.3 says "The Crypto-Binding TLV and > Intermediate-Result TLV MUST be included to perform cryptographic binding > after each successful EAP method in a sequence of one or more EAP methods", > 4.2.13 says "It MUST be included with the Intermediate-Result TLV to perform > cryptographic binding after each successful EAP method in a sequence of EAP > methods", Annex C.3 shows an example exchange with a single inner EAP > authentication method with use of Intermediate-Result TLV. > > It looks like the majority of the places discussion this topic implies that > there is going to be an Intermediate-Result TLV after each inner EAP > authentication method and the text in 3.3.1 is the only clear case of > conflicting (or well, at least misleading if one were to claim it does not > explicitly say MUST NOT for the one inner EAP authentication method case). As > such, I'd conclude the Intermediate-Result TLV is indeed going to be > exchanged after each EAP authentication method and the proposed text change > to 3.3.1 covers that. > > Given the example in Section C.3, odd as it seems, is there any reason not to accept this erratum? Eliot
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