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

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

3. 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:
Mailing List:
Current draft:

4. 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

5. 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 TGs
AES-CCM RFC
Proposals for Key distribution mechanisms which enable fast roaming, see
Mobile IP
See

6. IETF Meetings Recent/upcoming meetings: http://www.ietf.org
July 17-21, 2003, Vienna, Austria
November 9-14, 2003 Minneapolis, MN
TBD: Website of IETF/IEEE request/response status
As maintained for others, for example see