Re: [MEXT] Well-known problem with authentication/etc. in wireless networks

[Julien Laganier <[e-mail]>]

Hi Pete,

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Pete McCann <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi, Julien,
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Julien Laganier <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> Yes, EAP authentication for IKEv2. Yes the MN needs to attach to the
>> network first, as hosts currently do today already.
>
> Right.  I think Charlie was asking whether MIP could be the network access
> authentication protocol.
>
>>> It may be interesting to look at whether access authentication and mobility
>>> management can be combined.
>>
>> I don' t know what problem we would be solving by combining the two.
>
> Making initial establishment of the SA with the HA (upon network attachment)
> more efficient. Making handovers faster and more efficient by reducing the
> number of round-trip messages required.

In the context of this discussion, optimizing Mobile IPv6 handover
speed seems to imply that slowness of those is the root cause of that
lack of MIPv6 deployment, which I don' t think is the case. On the
other hand, coupling network access authentication with mobility
management would arguably reduces deployment flexibility and thus harm
rather than help potential MIPv6 deployments.

Thus I am still not sure what the problem is.

--julien