Re: [pcp] PANA implementatinos to consider

Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net> Thu, 13 September 2012 15:26 UTC

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Hi Sam, 

I wonder why you care about PCP at all. You are neither someone who ships operating systems nor someone who provides network equipment (like a NAT or a firewall). 

You seem to be willing to spend a lot of time on that topic and I am curious where this interest comes from. 

Ciao
Hannes

On Sep 13, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Sam Hartman wrote:

> 
> 
> hi.
> So, as I mentioned  earlier I'm either in the camp of strongly
> preferring PCP-specific authentication or in the camp of not caring much
> at all.
> 
> I'd kind of like to find out which camp I'm in by the 21st.
> 
> My nervousness is about implementation complexity. I would like to see
> PCP authentication be something that can easily be implemented with
> open-source libraries. I know how to do that if we use an EAP library
> directly. I've managed projects doing something quite similar and I
> understand the implementation complexity.
> 
> Would people familiar with PANA implementation be willing to suggest
> which implementation I should look at? I'd prefer to look at one, but if
> there's disagreement I'd be happy to look at two.
> I'm sure you've done your analysis on this point but I'll feel more
> comfortable if I do my own.
> 
> I'll be happy to share my conclusions as I suspect that there are other
> WG participants who care about implementation complexity.
> 
> If there are open-source PCP servers I'd be happy to glance at those
> just to see how things like memory management, event loop and state
> management line up.
> 
> --Sam
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