Certificate Extensions and Attributes Supporting Authentication in Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)
draft-ietf-pkix-rfc3770bis-03
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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Certificate Extensions and Attributes
Supporting Authentication in Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) and
Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)' to Proposed Standard
The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Certificate Extensions and Attributes Supporting Authentication in
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) '
<draft-ietf-pkix-rfc3770bis-04.txt> as a Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509)
Working Group.
The IESG contact persons are Sam Hartman and Tim Polk.
A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pkix-rfc3770bis-04.txt
Ballot Text
Technical Summary
This document defines mechanisms supporting Extensible Authentication
Protocol (EAP) authentication methods that employ X.509
public key certificates. This document defines two EAP extended key usage
values and a public key certificate extension to carry Wireless LAN (WLAN
System Service identifiers (SSIDs), and describes how these mechanisms may
be applied to support authentication in Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) and
Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN).
Working Group Summary
The working group had consensus to advance the draft to Proposed
Standard.
Protocol Quality
This document obseletes and replaces RFC 3770. It has been reviewed
by the PKIX working group. It has been reviewed for the IESG by Sam
Hartman.
Note to RFC Editor
Section 1.1:
old: Three changes are included
new: Five significant changes are included: