On Aug 27, 2023, at 10:42 AM, Heikki Vatiainen <h...@radiatorsoftware.com> 
wrote:
> The diff between RFC 7170 and the current draft may help with the proposed 
> change. I just noticed that 'EAP' was used more in the RFC than in the draft:

  Yes.  7170 referred to "inner EAP method" in many places, even when it mean 
"any inner thing"

> I've also just pushed a one-line update to git to update the first paragraph 
> of section 5.3 "Computing the Compound MAC" which currently says this:

  That looks good.

> Related to this, a closer look at the draft shows that at least the following 
> terms are used in interchangeable manner:
> - EAP authentication method
> - EAP method
> - authentication method
> - method
> - inner method
> - Phase 2 authentications
> - authentication
> - conversation (Sequence C.6. with chained EAPs)
> 
> In terminology section only 'Inner method' is defined and it seems to me that 
> in many cases 'Inner method' would suffice when some of the term is used. 
> There are of course cases when a specific term, such as 'EAP method', is 
> needed.

  I'll take a pass tomorrow to go through and clean it up.

  Alan DeKok.

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