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

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

3. IEEE 802.11 EAP Method Requirements
IEEE EAP Method Requirements documented in 04/65, motion approved to publish as Informational RFC
Internet Draft available, see and in IETF last call
Review Comments available, see
Review of IETF comments in IEEE TGi - Thursday

4. Update: CAPWAP WG
WG formed 1Q04, Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points
WG Chairs Mahalingam Mani, and Dorothy Gellert,
WG Website:
IETF Request – Potential Need for AP Functional Definition
Call for Interest in IEEE WNG
IETF Request for IEEE Review of CAPWAP Taxonomy Document
IEEE Chair’s Ad-Hoc Committee

5. Chair’s Ad-Hoc (CAPWAP Taxonomy Document)
Scope
Address one work item on behalf of the IEEE WG: 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 WG

6. 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

7. 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

8. Chair’s Ad-Hoc (CAPWAP Taxonomy Document)
IEEE WG Review and Approval
Option 1: Review, modify and approve at the May IEEE 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

9. New: IRTF Research Group
IP Mobility Optimizations (Mob Opts) Research Group formed
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

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