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RE: Question about how to proceed on PIC



> Greetings again. 

Hi, Paul.

> As many of you know, PIC was sent to the RFC 
> Editor for publication, and before the RFC came out, a 
> security problem with the way that PIC, EAP, and other 
> related protocols do authentication was discovered. The problem is
described in 
> detail in 
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-puthenkulam-eap-binding-02.tx
t>.

> We now have a clearer idea on how to modify PIC to avoid the security
problem, 

Cool!  How is it done? 
 
...

> So our question to you is, should we fix PIC and get a standards-track
RFC, an informational > RFC, or should we withdraw it? There is no
reason for us to create an RFC that no one will > 
> implement. 

Serious question: was anybody actually planning to implement PIC
_before_ the problems were discovered?

> We want to hear from folks in the WG about this so we can decide to go
forwards.

--Paul Hoffman and Sara Bitan, WG chairs