RE: stds-802-handoff: Addressing Security, was : Thursday Handoff meeting time.

["Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca@avaya.com>]

I agree with David. One more thing - this study group needs to work closely with LinkSec, which is supposed to address the security requirements for all 802.1. LinkSec hold an Interim meeting in early June, and submitted a PAR for MAC security to NesCom for approval. Other aspects of the 802 security work may be addressed by future PARs. The two SGs need to debate where the security aspects of handoffs belong.

Dan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnston, Dj [mailto:dj.johnston@intel.com]
> Sent: 25 June, 2003 6:35 AM
> To: Clint Chaplin; stds-802-handoff@ieee.org
> Subject: RE: stds-802-handoff: Addressing Security, was : 
> Thursday Handoff meeting time.
> 
> 
> Clint,
> Being a study group, whether or not we address security is a 
> matter for
> debate until we agree on a PAR. However I feel that there is some
> consensus as to how far security needs to be addressed. Please correct
> me if I'm wrong on that..
> 
> 1) We should not define security algorithms. That is for 
> crypto experts.
> 2) We should not define security protocols. That is addressed 
> elsewhere.
> Adding more will not help matters.
> 3) Security protocols and procedures may benefit from information that
> can be made available through handoff mechanisms we 
> hypothetically might
> design. So we would be correct to analyse the likely needs of the
> security protocols defined elsewhere and make sure we don't 
> break them,
> and if possible enable them to work in a handoff scenario.
> 
> Put more succinctly, we are here to do handoff stuff, handoff stuff is
> to some extent linked to security activities and we need to take that
> into account, but getting into defining security protocols would be
> overstepping the mark.
> 
> DJ
> 
> 
> David Johnston
> Intel Corporation
> Chair, IEEE 802 Handoff ECSG
> 
> Email : dj.johnston@intel.com
> Tel   : 503 380 5578 (Mobile)
> Tel   : 503 264 3855 (Office)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Clint Chaplin [mailto:cchaplin@sj.symbol.com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 5:47 PM
> > To: stds-802-handoff@ieee.org; Johnston, Dj
> > Subject: Re: stds-802-handoff: Thursday Handoff meeting time.
> > 
> > 
> > You'll probably tell me if I am wrong, but didn't I overhear 
> > that security would >not< be addressed by this SG?  And if 
> > so, was this because of the lack of expertiese in the SG, or 
> > for other reasons?
> > 
> > 
> > Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin
> > 
> 
>