RFC 5191 on Protocol for Carrying Authentication for Network Access (PANA)

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        RFC 5191

        Title:      Protocol for Carrying Authentication for 
                    Network Access (PANA) 
        Author:     D. Forsberg, Y. Ohba,
                    Ed., B. Patil, H. Tschofenig, A. Yegin
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       May 2008
        Mailbox:    dan.forsberg@nokia.com, 
                    yohba@tari.toshiba.com, 
                    basavaraj.patil@nsn.com,
                    hannes.tschofenig@nsn.com, 
                    a.yegin@partner.samsung.com
        Pages:      46
        Characters: 96716
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-pana-pana-18.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5191.txt

This document defines the Protocol for Carrying Authentication for
Network Access (PANA), a network-layer transport for Extensible
Authentication Protocol (EAP) to enable network access authentication
between clients and access networks.  In EAP terms, PANA is a
UDP-based EAP lower layer that runs between the EAP peer and the EAP
authenticator.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network Access Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the Internet
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