Technical Summary
This document defines the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP),
an authentication framework which supports multiple authentication
methods. EAP typically runs directly over data link layers such as
PPP or IEEE 802, without requiring IP. EAP provides its own support
for duplicate elimination and retransmission, but is reliant on lower
layer ordering guarantees. Fragmentation is not supported within EAP
itself; however, individual EAP methods may support this.
Working Group Summary
This document is a product of the EAP WG. It has been extensively
reviewed by the WG and updated to reflect comments from several
WG last calls. The -07 version also includes updates to address
issues raised in IETF last call.
Protocol Quality
This document was reviewed for the IESG by Margaret Wasserman