PAP [was Re: forging a new pppext charter]

Carsten Bormann writes:
> > And isn't RFC 1334 already in obsoleted status? What are the important
> > cases where PAP is useful?
> 
> How about PAP in EAP-TTLS?
> (RFC 1334 is carefully not referenced in 
> draft-ietf-pppext-eap-ttls-03.txt, but it has a whole subsection 10.2.5 
> devoted to it.)

I don't think that solves the original problem; it just creates a new
one.

One meager but important advantage that PAP had was ubiquity.  Burying
it inside EAP will destroy that, as there are few real implementations
of EAP deployed and used.

In any event, EAP extensions should really be referred to the EAP
working group.  As I understand it, they're supposed to be working on
methods once they're done with the current specification efforts.

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