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

Discussion - RADIUS OPS Area Directors met with 3GPP, 3GPP2, IEEE 802.11 liaisons to understand RADIUS related needs RADIUS Working Group May be Formed Requests from 3GPP2 Possible WFA WLAN Public Access Needs

CAPWAP BOF July 2003 – Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) BOF Held Vendors interested in a standardized, secure protocol for lightweight access points, access routers. Slides available: http://www.geocities.com/kempf42/capwap.zip Mailing List: lwapp@frascone.com Current draft: http://www.airespace.com/ftp/draft-calhoun-seamoby-lwapp-03.txt

CAPWAP BOF -Charter Charter currently under discussion, includes Link layer independent protocol, with mappings for specific wireless L2s Discovery of a CAPWAP manager Acquisition of APs by CAPWAP manager. Configuration and monitoring of wireless link by CAPWAP manager. Partially and/or fully terminate the wireless MAC layer at the CAPWAP manager. Security for CAPWAP signaling

Additional IETF Activities of Interest Seamoby – Context transfer across access points This WG has nearly completed work, will become dormant soon. Other activities of interest IEEE 802.11 TGs AES-CCM RFC Proposals for Key distribution mechanisms which enable fast roaming, see http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-irtf-aaaarch-handoff-01.txt Mobile IP See http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/mobileip-charter.html

IETF Meetings Recent/upcoming meetings: http://www.ietf.org July 17-21, 2003, Vienna, Austria November 9-14, 2003 Minneapolis, MN 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