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Network access control was a hot topic at last year’s Interop show, despite an evolutionary state that was barely protozoic. But new developments from the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and pure-play vendors such as Vernier Networks and InfoExpress could soon enable the technology to crawl out of the muck and take its place on enterprise networks, according to one expert.

The multivendor TCG plans to announce three new specifications: a client-server protocol for Trusted Network Connect (TNC) dubbed IF-TNCCS; IF-T, a specification for client server communications over tunneled EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol); and a policy enforcement protocol called IF-PEP for RADIUS.

The new specifications fill in gaps in the TNC architecture, said Steve Hanna of Juniper Networks, co-chairman of the Trusted Network Connect subgroup. Network access control makes steady progress - Computerworld

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