FW: Requirements on 802 groups
> Colleagues,
>
> During the conference call on joint 802.11 and 802.21 requirements,
> the topic of fast authentication was mentioned. It was determined that
> a thread on the mailing list should be brought up to see if additional
> requirements should be added in this topic. It was also mentioned that
> this might not be limited to joint .21 and .11 requirements, but apply
> to other 802 as well.
>
> Although .21's scope precludes certain aspects of security, it can
> make the requirements for other groups to fulfill. As such, there were
> (at least) three issues that need to be considered. During the
> conference call, two of them were agreed:
>
> 1) Information Service to be available pre-association
> (pre-authenticated state)
> 2) Information Service to be available post-association (authenticated
> state)
>
> The third issue was:
> 3) Enable "fast authentication" transition between supported network
> types, not limited to:
> - between 802.11 ESSs
> - between 802.11 and 802.16
>
> The notion here is that authentication has to be fast enough, or
> enough in advance, that it doesn't get in the way of seamless
> handover. This is an area discussed quite thoroughly by 802.11r so
> within the 802 we can leverage that knowledge, and cut off a process
> of re-educating a whole new set of people not familiar with what has
> been done there.
>
> This is a request for active proposals on the third item. Please frame
> your input on this topic to the list only as proposed requirement(s),
> or later, modifications to previously posted proposed requirement(s).
> Along with the proposed requirements, additional explanatory text is
> acceptable. Please do not post comments or questions that are not
> accompanied by proposed requirements.
>
> Best Regards,
> Michael