Yes, this document is the main thing on the agenda. 
On Jul 25, 2013, at 6:26 AM, Josh Howlett <josh.howl...@ja.net>
 wrote:

> Section 3.2 of draft-wierenga-ietf-eduroam describes the issues presented
> by EAP's spartan support for error condition handling. Although these are
> described in the context of a particular roaming operator's experiences, I
> believe this is also likely to be true for other non-trivial deployments.
> 
> To its credit this document (draft-ietf-emu-eap-tunnel-method) does
> address error handling more comprehensively than previous EAP methods, but
> I am not confident that it will yield error handling outcomes that could
> be understood and corrected by an end user. For example, from my
> understanding of the document, the most common failure modes (e.g.,
> incorrect password; account locked; backend database offline, etc) will
> all yield an "Inner_Method_Error". The other error messages are equally
> vague ("General_PKI_Error") or cryptic from an end user's perspective.
> 
> Is this something that could be discussed in Berlin next week?
> 
> Josh.
> 
> On 16/07/2013 15:19, "The IESG" <iesg-secret...@ietf.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The IESG has received a request from the EAP Method Update WG (emu) to
>> consider the following document:
>> - 'Tunnel EAP Method (TEAP) Version 1'
>> <draft-ietf-emu-eap-tunnel-method-07.txt> as Proposed Standard
>> 
>> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
>> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
>> ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2013-07-30. Exceptionally, comments may be
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>> 
>> Abstract
>> 
>> 
>>  This document defines the Tunnel Extensible Authentication Protocol
>>  (TEAP) version 1.  TEAP is a tunnel based EAP method that enables
>>  secure communication between a peer and a server by using the
>>  Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to establish a mutually
>>  authenticated tunnel.  Within the tunnel, Type-Length-Value (TLV)
>>  objects are used to convey authentication related data between the
>>  EAP peer and the EAP server.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The file can be obtained via
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-emu-eap-tunnel-method/
>> 
>> IESG discussion can be tracked via
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-emu-eap-tunnel-method/ballot/
>> 
>> 
>> The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D:
>> 
>>  http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1902/
>> 
>> 
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