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

IEEE 802.11 EAP Method Requirements Initially Documented in 04/65, 04/160r1(January), Motion approved to revise in 04/160r5(May) Motion to revise per 04/160r6, incorporate IESG comments Reference updates Clarification on EAP state definition Cosmetic changes to highlight requirements Goal – have published as an IETF Informational RFC Internet Draft available http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/IEEE/draft-walker-ieee802-req-02.txt

Motion Motion: Dorothy Stanley Move to request Stuart J. Kerry, Chair of IEEE 802.11 to send the letter in 04/160r6 to Harald Alvastrand IETF Chair, with copies to the IAB and the IESG, Requesting publication of the “EAP Method Requirements for Wireless LANs” as an IETF Informational RFC.

Update: CAPWAP WG IETF WG formed 1Q04, Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points WG Website: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/capwap-charter.html IETF Request –Need for AP Functional Definition Motion to form IEEE 802.11 AP Functional Description Study Group approved May04, re-affirmed July04, now to Excom for approval IETF Request for IEEE 802.11Review of CAPWAP Taxonomy Document IEEE 802.11 Chair’s Ad-Hoc Committee Formed Mar 04 Motion passed to forward 04/473r3 to Bert Wijnen as IEEE 802.11 WG response to document review request Draft 3 of Taxonomy document incorporates comments.

Addn’l EAP Activities IETF EAP Working Group has drafted EAP Network Discovery and Selection Problem Description Document See http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-eap-netsel-problem-00.txt IETF asked to publish 3GPP EAP-based solution http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-eap-netsel-problem-00.txt Possible IEEE 802.11 review and comments on these documents Relevant to work considered in WIEN SG Access Network discovery, Identifier selection, AAA routing selection, Payload routing selection

IETF Meetings Upcoming meetings: http://www.ietf.org August 1-6, 2004, San Diego, CA, USA November 7-12, 2004, Washington DC March 6-11, 2005 http://www.ietf.org