IETF Liaison Report November 2004 Dorothy Stanley – Agere Systems IEEE 802.11 Liaison To/From IETF
Update: IEEE 802.11 Review of EAP Documents EAP Network Discovery and Selection Problem Description Document, see http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-eap-netsel-problem-02.txt Generate review comments in November meeting
New -IEEE 802.11 EAP Keying Request from IETF to document IEEE 802.11 EAP Keying Requirements Input to the EAP Keying draft, see http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-eap-keying-04.txt Will be discussed in TGr, Thursday Nov 18th, 10:30 am
Update: CAPWAP WG IETF WG formed 1Q04, Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points, re-chartered Nov04 WG Website: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/capwap-charter.html Taxonomy document nearly completed; Next steps: Objectives Document, Protocol evaluation and base protocol selection document, CAPWAP protocol standard, MIB support standard.
New - CAPWAP WG Request for (future) IEEE 802.11Review of CAPWAP objectives document, expected March05 Request for plan to resolve authenticator identity issue. The centralized model encourages AC implementations to use one PMK for many different WTPs. This practice facilitates speedy transition by a station from one WTP to another WTP that is connected to the same AC without establishing a separate PMK. However, this leaves the station in a difficult position. The station cannot distinguish between a compromised PMK and one that is intentionally being shared. This issue must be resolved, but the resolution is beyond the scope of the CAPWAP working group. The venue for this resolution is to be determined by the IEEE 802 and IETF liaisons. Liaison discussion underway
Benchmarking Methodology WG Work described in http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-alexander-wlan-meth-00.txt is in scope for TGT IEEE 802.11 WG position – work should be done in IEEE 802.11
Ongoing: RADIUS Extensions IETF Radius Extensions Working Group (RADEXT) is standardizing additional RADIUS attributes includes the standardization of LAN attributes, to enable use of authentication, authorization and accounting in wired and wireless LANs http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/radext-charter.html Proposed WLAN related attributes in http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-congdon-radext-ieee802-01.txt Comments welcome
Other areas of interest MIPv6 Signaling and Handoff Optimization (mipshop) Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers for 802.11 Networks, see http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mipshop-80211fh-03.txt IRTF IP Mobility Optimization (mobopts) See http://www.irtf.org/charters/mobopts.html
IETF Meetings Meetings: http://www.ietf.org November 7-12, 2004, Washington DC March 6-11, 2005, Minneapolis July 31- August 5, 2005, Paris November 6-11 http://www.ietf.org