RFC 6696 on EAP Extensions for the EAP Re-authentication Protocol (ERP)

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        RFC 6696

        Title:      EAP Extensions for the EAP 
                    Re-authentication Protocol (ERP) 
        Author:     Z. Cao, B. He,
                    Y. Shi, Q. Wu, Ed.,
                    G. Zorn, Ed.
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       July 2012
        Mailbox:    caozhen@chinamobile.com, 
                    hebaohong@catr.cn, 
                    shiyang1@huawei.com,
                    bill.wu@huawei.com, 
                    glenzorn@gmail.com
        Pages:      47
        Characters: 103860
        Obsoletes:  RFC5296

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-hokey-rfc5296bis-07.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6696.txt

The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is a generic framework
supporting multiple types of authentication methods.  In systems
where EAP is used for authentication, it is desirable to avoid
repeating the entire EAP exchange with another authenticator.  This
document specifies extensions to EAP and the EAP keying hierarchy to
support an EAP method-independent protocol for efficient re-
authentication between the peer and an EAP re-authentication server
through any authenticator.  The re-authentication server may be in
the home network or in the local network to which the peer is
connecting.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]

This document is a product of the Handover Keying 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
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