IETF Liaison Report March 2004 Dorothy Stanley – Agere Systems IEEE 802.11 Liaison To/From IETF

IEEE 802.11i Dependencies (via 802.1X-REV) EAP Specification - RFC 2284bis – Approved RFC number assigned, RFC 3748 Publication pending

IEEE 802.11 EAP Method Requirements IEEE 802.11 EAP Method Requirements documented in 04/65, motion approved to publish as Informational RFC Internet Draft available, see http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-walker-ieee802-req-00.txt and in IETF last call Review Comments available, see http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/EAP/eapissues.html Review of IETF comments in IEEE 802.11 TGi - Thursday

Update: CAPWAP WG WG formed 1Q04, Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points WG Chairs Mahalingam Mani, mmani@avaya.com and Dorothy Gellert, Dorothy.Gellert@nokia.com WG Website: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/capwap-charter.html IETF Request – Potential Need for AP Functional Definition Call for Interest in IEEE 802.11 WNG IETF Request for IEEE 802.11Review of CAPWAP Taxonomy Document IEEE 802.11 Chair’s Ad-Hoc Committee

Chair’s Ad-Hoc (CAPWAP Taxonomy Document) Scope Address one work item on behalf of the IEEE 802.11WG: Formulate a draft WG response to the IETF CAPWAP WG request for comments on the draft Network Architecture Taxonomy Document, for discussion by the IEEE 802.11 WG

Chair’s Ad-hoc Member Volunteers to date – Thank You Bob Beach Dr. Harry Bims Nancy Cam-Winget Clint Chaplin Darwin Engwer Fred Haisch Haixiang He Bobby Jose Thomas Maufer Mike Montemurro Mike Moreton

Chair’s Ad-Hoc (CAPWAP Taxonomy Document) Schedule Nov/Jan – Request from IETF for review, request for volunteers March 04 – Formation of Ad-Hoc April 5 – Draft Document Available Conference Calls: April 7, April 20, April 27, May 4, 9:00AM Pacific Late April - Submission containing Draft WG response available May 2004 – Discussion, Approval Process Begins

Chair’s Ad-Hoc (CAPWAP Taxonomy Document) IEEE 802.11 WG Review and Approval Option 1: Review, modify and approve at the May IEEE 802.11 meeting Can have reply available in May (meets June request) Commonly used process for external standards body review comment requests Option 2: Letter Ballot (30/40 day) Can have reply available in July (past June request) Commonly used for WG drafts, operating rules In April, the CAPWAP document, request for comments, draft reply comments will be available, removing uncertainty of scope of response; decide in May

New: IRTF Research Group IP Mobility Optimizations (Mob Opts) Research Group formed http://www.irtf.org/charters/mobopts.html Chairs: Bill Arbaugh, Rajeev Koordli Analysis of Mobile IP Route Optimization considering such parameters as traffic pattern, link conditions, topology etc. with the goal of arriving at conclusions on its usage Investigation of securing handovers by making use of access authentication parameters, focussing initially on IEEE 802 systems. And, applying the adopted security for Fast Handovers designed in the Mobile IP group in the IETF. Improving re-authentication latency during handovers, and subsequently transport protocol performance

IETF Meetings Recent/upcoming meetings: http://www.ietf.org Feb 29-March 5 2004 Seoul, Korea August 1-6, 2004, San Diego, CA, USA November 7-12, 2004 http://www.ietf.org