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

2. IEEE 802.11 EAP Method Requirements
Documented in 04/65, 04/160r1(January)
Motion approved to publish as IETF Informational RFC
Internet Draft available, see and in IETF last call
Review Comments available, see
IETF comments addressed: see 04/160r5. Motion to adopt this revision, publish in IETF

3. Update: CAPWAP WG
IETF WG formed 1Q04, Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points
WG Website:
IETF Request –Need for AP Functional Definition
Call for Interest, discussion in IEEE WNG
IETF Request for IEEE Review of CAPWAP Taxonomy Document
IEEE Chair’s Ad-Hoc Committee Formed Mar 04
Response Document 04/473r3
Motion to forward 04/473r3 to Bert Wijnen as IEEE WG response to document review request

4. 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

5. 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