Technical Summary
This memo specifies an extension to IEEE Std 802.11 to provide for
opportunistic (unauthenticated) encryption to the wireless media.
Working Group Summary
This is an AD sponsored individual draft.
Document Quality
The responsible AD is unaware of any implementations so far.
This idea was initially raised in the IETF on the saag list, which
recommended taking the idea to IEEE which the authors then
did. Discussion in IEEE didn't result in this becoming part
of the 802.11 specification, for process reasons. The authors,
IETF/IEEE liaisons and responsible AD (at the regular IETF/IEEE
co-ordination meetings) then discussed whether
it was reasonable to progress this as an IETF RFC, concluding
eventually that that was ok. That plan was also described on
the saag list.
We also reached out to IEEE participants for feedback and did
get some comment on the IETF list.
After we requested an assignment via liaison (#1486),
IEEE also approved the allocation of the code point needed,
at a point when it was clear that this spec was being pursued
in the IETF. So this was an odd one, but seems like it won't
cause any inter-SDO conflict at this point.
Personnel
Stephen Farrell is the responsible AD.