Re: [802.21] HLSI
The currently defined Cipher Suites and Authentication Method are too
802.11 specific, and not useful information for other media. I think
what we actually need in basic set is more generic security and qos
suites like Jesse Walker prensented a couple of meetings before (is
there updated information about Jesse's work?). We can have
placeholder Security and QoS IEs at this moment, and continue the work
of defining their contents for a few months.
Besides that we should also discuss whether media-specific securty
parameters should be defined in basic set or extended set. I think
they should be defined in extended set in order to avoid definition of
tons of media-specific TLVs in the 802.21 specification.
Yoshihiro Ohba
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:08:15PM -0400, Subir Das wrote:
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> >From: stds-802-21@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
> >[mailto:stds-802-21@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG] On Behalf Of Subir Das
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 10:57 AM
> >To: stefano.faccin@NOKIA.COM
> >Cc: STDS-802-21@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
> >Subject: Re: [802.21] HLSI
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> >The media dependent IEs currently include:
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> >{ Cipher_Suites, Authentication_Methods, Cost (free/not free),
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> >IP_Version, Data_Rates, QoS, Neighbor_Maps }
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> >In my analysis, Cipher_Suites, Authentication_Methods, Data_Rates, QoS
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> >are questionable. I agree on representing Cost as a binary value
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> >[Stefano] Authentication_Methods is needed. How does the UE know which
> >methods are supported and allowed? The UE will have to try and fail to
> >find out. Even if an AP implements WPA and WPA2, it does not mean the
> >network enables/supports all authentication mechanisms.
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> >[Subir] Can we capture all these in a more generic "Security" type
> >IE? In that case, we may avoid mutiple IEs that are related to
> >security (e.g., Cipher-Suites, Authentication_Methods for lower layers
> >and NAT, VPN for higher layers). This may be true for QoS as well.
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> >[Vivek G Gupta] Cipher Suites and Authentication Methods seem to be
> >quite adequate for capturing security related information for 802
> >access networks.
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> [Subir] Do we need Cipher_Suites in base set? Authentication_Methods
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> >We may need to be more specific when specifying NAT/VPN requirements.
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> [Subir] Agree. But can we capture them in a high level IE (e.g.,
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> >For QoS, the actual QoS specific parameters are likely to be dynamic
> >and need to be queried directly from PoA, by possibly using access
> >network specific methods.
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> [Subir] Agree. An indication on whether QoS is supported or not may
> be enough here too.
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> >From 802.21 IS perspective, we could indicate at high level if QoS is
> >supported or not and any other more static type information.
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> >Other suggestions welcome.
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> [Subir] Agree
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