1. Building a MACsec Draft
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Overview
General comments
Look at sections of the document
See where various issues can go in the doc
Answer questions
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Why?
Follow same pattern as other standards
Usefulness of having a template to organize contributions
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4. Outline – go over general flow
Overview
(References)
Definitions
(Abbreviations, Conformance)
Secure support of the MAC Service- what’s the point here, service
Principles of Secure Network Operation- how does this fit, what happens
Principles of MAC Security Entity operation- details of the solution, how it happens
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Outline
MAC Security Protocol (MACsec)
Encoding of MACsec PDUs - boilerplate
Management of MAC Security
Management Protocol - boilerplate
Annex A PICS - boilerplate
Annex Y Bibliography
Other Annexes – context, explanations
Annex Z Informative Commentary – history, unresolved issues
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Where some issues go
Scope – 1.2
Requirements – some in cl01, full discussion in annex
Authentication – in another document, with pointer in ch. 6
Multipoint - ch. 7 Principles of Network Operation
Multihop – ch. 7
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