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IETF Liaison Report. March 2003 Dorothy Stanley – Agere Systems IEEE 802.11 Liaison To/From IETF http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/IETF56/EAP/. IETF TGi Solution & IETF IETF - 802.11f RADIUS Review Next Meetings. Overview. Internet Engineering Task Force, www.ietf.org
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IETF Liaison Report March 2003 Dorothy Stanley – Agere Systems IEEE 802.11 Liaison To/From IETF http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/IETF56/EAP/
IETF TGi Solution & IETF IETF - 802.11f RADIUS Review Next Meetings Overview
Internet Engineering Task Force, www.ietf.org The IETF is the principal body engaged in the development of new internet standard specifications See RFC 3160, “Tao of IETF: A novice's guide to the IETF” Over 50 active working groups IETF
802.11i Authentication & Key Management Out of scope for 802.11i In scope for IETF Wireless Station Access Point Authentication Server EAP-TLS, EAP-SIM, EAP-TTLS, EAP-PEAP, etc EAP RADIUS 802.1X (EAPoL) UDP/IP 802.11
January 2002 - Letter to IETF requesting work, see document 02/040 EAP Method Definition to meet 802.11i requirements Specification of EAP Keying Framework RADIUS Extensions for Key Delivery March 2003 – Letter To IETF providing information, see document 03/243 EAP Method Credentials & Key Strength Future – Letter re: EAP Method Standards Track Requests TGi Requests
EAP working group formed http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/02nov/136.htm Updating the base EAP specification, RFC 2284, see http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-eap-rfc2284bis-01.txt EAP Key Hierarchy Specification A problem statement has been developed, see http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-aboba-pppext-key-problem-05.txt RADIUS and RADIUS attribute usage with EAP http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-aboba-radius-rfc2869bis-09.txt IETF Responses
IETF Review of TGf RADIUS usage RADIUS defined in IETF IETF Requests - TGf
IETF Review Welcome Since TGf is nearly complete, use Request for Interpretation Process Investigate Pre-publication release to IETF TGf Response
IETF Specifies RADIUS, see RFC2869, RFC 2865 Example: 802.1X See http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-congdon-radius-8021x-23.txt RADIUS usage information as Informative Annex Process to Manage Interaction - If TG spec uses modifies RADIUS usage: Extract RADIUS specs into Internet Draft IETF Review of Internet Draft IEEE 802.11-IETF Interaction:RADIUS
Seamoby – Context transfer across access points Potential TGk Requirements Primary Responsibility of the TG to identify interactions/dependencies and specify work/requirements Other activities of interest IEEE 802.11 TGs AES-CCM RFC Key distribution for fast roaming Additional IETF Activity of Interest
Next two meetings: March 17-21, 2003, San Francisco July 17-21, 2003, Vienna, Austria ~2000 Participants per meeting 802.11 WLAN used at meetings http://www.ietf.org IETF Meetings