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

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 http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-walker-ieee802-req-00.txt and in IETF last call Review Comments available, see http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/EAP/eapissues.html IETF comments addressed: see 04/160r5. Motion to adopt this revision, publish in IETF

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 Call for Interest, discussion in IEEE 802.11 WNG IETF Request for IEEE 802.11Review of CAPWAP Taxonomy Document IEEE 802.11 Chair’s Ad-Hoc Committee Formed Mar 04 Response Document 04/473r3 Motion to forward 04/473r3 to Bert Wijnen as IEEE 802.11 WG response to document review request

IRTF Research Group IP Mobility Optimizations (Mob Opts) Research Group formed http://www.irtf.org/charters/mobopts.html 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

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