IETF Liaison Report November 2003 Dorothy Stanley – Agere Systems IEEE 802.11 Liaison To/From IETF

IEEE 802.11i Dependencies IETF AES-CCM Specification Issued as RFC 3610, see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3610.txt Resolved 802.11i LB 61 comments

IEEE 802.11i Dependencies (via 802.1-REV) RFC 2284bis – In IETF last call http://www.levkowetz.com/pub/ietf/drafts/eap/rfc2284bis/draft-ietf-eap-rfc2284bis-07.d.html Last call (equivalent of Sponsor Ballot) closed November 6th , 2003.

Update: CAPWAP BOF Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) BOF-2 will be held Nov 14th, 2003 BOF-2 Chairs Mahalingam Mani, mmani@avaya.com and Dorothy Gellert, Dorothy.Gellert@nokia.com Mailing List: lwapp@frascone.com Current draft: http://www.airespace.com/ftp/draft-calhoun-seamoby-lwapp-03.txt Charter, links, issues lise available at http://www.frascone.com/lwapp/ Request for IEEE Review of CAPWAP documents, after WG formed. Please see Stuart Kerry or Dorothy Stanley if you’re interested.

CAPWAP BOF -Charter Clear problem statement of CAPWAP work Description of the split AP (AP – Access Controller) architecture CAPWAP security requirements, defining the needs for security between the AP and the AC, both for host data transport and for AP-AC signaling and control Discovery of ACs by APs Auto-organization of APs and ACs into a managed wireless access network, including AC redundancy Secure Encapsulation of host data and AC-AP signaling, as necessary to address the requirements Secure Configuration of the AP by the AC

Update: RADIUS WG IETF RADIUS Working Group May be Formed RADEXT BOF to be held November 14th, 2003 Wi-Fi WLAN Public Access Needs, Requests from 3GPP2 Proposed charter includes: Specifying how RADIUS handles prepaid accounting for WLAN (& other) Pre-paid applications Standardizing WLAN-related RADIUS attributes. Standardizing a basic RADIUS attribute extension mechanism Contact Bernard Aboba aboba@internaut.com or David Nelson dnelson@enterasys.com

Update: EAP Keying EAP Key Framework Document See http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-aboba-pppext-key-problem-07.txt Will become an EAP WG work item Key Naming – Coordinate PMK name definitions as much as possible between 802.11i and EAP WG Joint meeting held with 802.11i, Herndon Oct 15, topics: Document status, Key Scoping, EAP State Machines, Key Hierarchies. See 03/830. EAP State Machine Document

IETF Meetings Recent/upcoming meetings: http://www.ietf.org November 9-14, 2003 Minneapolis, MN Feb 29-March 5 2004 Seoul, Korea August 1-6, 2004 November 7-12, 2004 http://www.ietf.org TBD: Website of IETF/IEEE 802.11 request/response status As maintained for others, for example see http://www.3gpp.org/TB/Other/IETF.htm