Re: IEEE 802.11/IETF Liason Call

[Dorothy Stanley <dstanley@agere.com>]

Hi Bernard,

Good dates for me are

August 14, 15,19,20,21
September 3,4,5.

On item 4 below, this draft letter has not been voted
out of the working group. There has been some, but not
alot of discussion on it to date.

Dorothy

Bernard Aboba wrote:

> Time is rolling around for our bi-monthly IETF 802.11/IETF liason
> teleconference, so I thought I'd poll people on appropriate times/dates.
> Since people tend to go on vacation for the summer, if you can let us know
> when you'll be available, that would be helpful in scheduling the call.
>
> Some potential topics for this month's call:
>
> 1. Fast Handoff.  At the IEEE 802 WNG meeting a study group was proposed
> on Fast Handoff.  Bill Arbaugh is working on a proposal for an IRTF RG
> relating to IETF aspects of the problem (AAA, EAP).  So some discussion of
> coordination is probably appropriate.
>
> 2. Key naming.  IEEE 802.11i, AAA and EAP WGs are now working on key
> naming.  So a coordination discussion is probably appropriate.
>
> 3. Response to the March liason letter.  Although Erik Nordmark proposed a
> response to the March IEEE 802 liason letter, I'm not clear that
> a formal response was sent.
>
> 4. Another liason letter?  I found the following document in the IEEE 802
> archives, and was curious as to whether this was discussed, and if so,
> what the outcome was:
>
> http://www.ieee802.org/11/Documents/DocumentHolder/3-361.zip
>
> 5. Handoff ECSG. There is an IEEE 802 Handoff Executive Committee Study
> Group, and at the DNA BOF at IETF 57 there was interest expressed in some
> kind of liason between the two groups.
>
> 6. EAP state machine.  During the IEEE 802.1aa meeting, it was decided to
> remove the EAP state machine from the 802.1aa document, which is a
> dependency of IEEE 802.11i.  Apparently there was some miscommunication
> about the state of the document (the document that was approved for
> inclusion in IEEE 802.1aa D6.1 was yet an EAP WG work item).
>
>  
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