1. IETF Liaison Report January 2004 Dorothy Stanley – Agere Systems
IEEE Liaison To/From IETF

2. IEEE 802.11i Dependencies (via 802.1X-REV)
RFC 2284bis – In IESG Comment Resolution
Last call (equivalent of Sponsor Ballot) closed November 6th , 2003.
Completed IESG Review
Approval expected shortly

3. EAP Method Requirements
March 2003 – 03/243 Letter from IEEE to IETF
Documents additional clarification of IEEE requirements on EAP Methods, Key Strength
IETF Response, see
Requested that requirements be documented in an Internet Draft and published as an RFC
Enable Published EAP methods to reference compliance to IEEE requirements
First Draft available (Thanks Bernard Aboba), see
Now - Finalize and approve the Internet Draft in IEEE i, see 04/0065
Requirements mapping – IEEE reqs letter to IETF reqs language, in RFC2284bis, see

4. Update: EAP Keying EAP Key Framework Document
See
Now an EAP WG work item
Coordination between IEEE i and EAP WG
Security Association Definitions in synch
Pre-Shared Key naming requirement prevents complete Key Naming synch
EAP State Machine Document
Is an EAP WG item
Completed first WG Last call

5. Update: CAPWAP BOF Formation of WG likely 1Q04
Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) BOF-2 held Nov 14th, 2003
BOF-2 Chairs Mahalingam Mani, and Dorothy Gellert,
Mailing List:
Formation of WG likely 1Q04
Current draft:
IETF Request for IEEE Review of CAPWAP documents, after WG formed. Please see Stuart Kerry or Dorothy Stanley if you’re interested.

6. Update: RADIUS WG IETF RADIUS Working Group May be formed
RADEXT BOF held November 14th, 2003
Wi-Fi WLAN Public Access Needs, Requests from 3GPP2
Plan to Issue a combined RADIUS attributes initial draft; plans for review and inclusion in IEEE 802 std TBD.
Formation of WG expected mid-04
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 or David Nelson

7. New: IRTF Research Group
IP Mobility Optimizations (Mob Opts) Research Group formed
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

8. IETF Meetings Recent/upcoming meetings: http://www.ietf.org
Feb 29-March Seoul, Korea
August 1-6, 2004, San Diego, CA, USA
November 7-12, 2004
TBD: Website of IETF/IEEE request/response status
As maintained for others, for example see