IETF Liaison Report

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IETF Liaison Report

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

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IEEE 802.11 EAP Method Requirements

• 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

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Update CAPWAP WG

• IETF WG formed 1Q04, Control And Provisioning of
  Wireless Access Points
• WG Website http//www.ietf.org/html.charters/capw
  ap-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 Chairs 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

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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

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IETF Meetings

• Upcoming meetings
• August 1-6, 2004, San Diego, CA, USA
• November 7-12, 2004, Washington DC
• March 6-11, 2005
• http//www.ietf.org