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January 2004 doc: 11 -04 -0117 -00 -0000 IETF Liaison Report January 2004 Dorothy Stanley – Agere Systems IEEE 802. 11 Liaison To/From IETF Submission Dorothy Stanley (Agere Systems)

January 2004 doc: 11 -04 -0117 -00 -0000 IEEE 802. 11 i Dependencies (via 802. 1 X-REV) • RFC 2284 bis – In IESG Comment Resolution – http: //www. levkowetz. com/pub/ietf/drafts/eap/rfc 22 84 bis/draft-ietf-eap-rfc 2284 bis-08. l. html – Last call (equivalent of Sponsor Ballot) closed November 6 th , 2003. – Completed IESG Review – Approval expected shortly Submission Dorothy Stanley (Agere Systems)

January 2004 doc: 11 -04 -0117 -00 -0000 EAP Method Requirements • March 2003 – 03/243 Letter from IEEE 802. 11 to IETF – Documents additional clarification of IEEE 802. 11 requirements on EAP Methods, Key Strength • IETF Response, see http: //www. drizzle. com/~aboba/IETF 56/EAP/ietf 56 -eap. pdf – Requested that requirements be documented in an Internet Draft and published as an RFC – Enable Published EAP methods to reference compliance to IEEE 802. 11 requirements – First Draft available (Thanks Bernard Aboba), see http: //www. drizzle. com/~aboba/IEEE/draft-walker-ieee 802 -req-00. txt • Now - Finalize and approve the Internet Draft in IEEE 802. 11 i, see 04/0065 – Requirements mapping – IEEE 802. 11 reqs letter to IETF reqs language, in RFC 2284 bis, see http: //ietf. levkowetz. com/drafts/eap/rfc 2284 bis/draftietf-eap-rfc 2284 bis-08. d. txt Submission Dorothy Stanley (Agere Systems)

January 2004 doc: 11 -04 -0117 -00 -0000 Update: EAP Keying • EAP Key Framework Document – See http: //www. ietf. org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-eap-keying 01. txt – Now an EAP WG work item – Coordination between IEEE 802. 11 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 Submission Dorothy Stanley (Agere Systems)

January 2004 doc: 11 -04 -0117 -00 -0000 Update: CAPWAP BOF • Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) BOF-2 held Nov 14 th, 2003 – BOF-2 Chairs Mahalingam Mani, mmani@avaya. com and Dorothy Gellert, Dorothy. Gellert@nokia. com – Mailing List: capwap@frascone. com • Formation of WG likely 1 Q 04 • Current draft: http: //www. ietf. org/internet-drafts/draftmani-capwap-arch-00. txt • IETF Request for IEEE Review of CAPWAP documents, after WG formed. Please see Stuart Kerry or Dorothy Stanley if you’re interested. Submission Dorothy Stanley (Agere Systems)

January 2004 doc: 11 -04 -0117 -00 -0000 Update: RADIUS WG • IETF RADIUS Working Group May be formed – RADEXT BOF held November 14 th, 2003 – Wi-Fi WLAN Public Access Needs, Requests from 3 GPP 2 – 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 aboba@internaut. com or David Nelson dnelson@enterasys. com Submission Dorothy Stanley (Agere Systems)

January 2004 doc: 11 -04 -0117 -00 -0000 New: 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 Submission Dorothy Stanley (Agere Systems)

January 2004 doc: 11 -04 -0117 -00 -0000 IETF Meetings • Recent/upcoming meetings: – Feb 29 -March 5 2004 Seoul, Korea – August 1 -6, 2004, San Diego, CA, USA – November 7 -12, 2004 • http: //www. ietf. org • TBD: Website of IETF/IEEE 802. 11 request/response status – As maintained for others, for example see http: //www. 3 gpp. org/TB/Other/IETF. htm Submission Dorothy Stanley (Agere Systems)