Standardisation process

People Responsible:

Leif Johansson, SUNET - Klaas Wierenga, Cisco Systems

One of the aims of the task force is to promote the usage of standards technologies in the field of mobility.

To achieve this, the group will liaise with relevant IETF working group to exchange results and ideas.

NEA implication on eduroam - NEA (Network Endpoint Assessment) is the set of checking to perform and patches to download before allowing a pc on a network. NEA has serious implication for eduroam as it will conflict with third party EAP-clients like secure W2 (currently heavily use by all Microsoft users that want to implement EAP-TTLS). The NEA IETF working group will be monitoring to report on the evolution in this field.
IETF EAP Working group - EAP is a quite simple protocol that allows for different authentication methods, most of which are proprietary solutions and there is no RFC related document. This working group operates to bring EAP and the related methods into standards track.