I am in the IEEE 802.11ai session. This is 'Fast Initial Link' setup, a new task group in 802.11. We are looking at how we can accelerate a number of steps in wireless so that people walking (or even driving) from one WiFi domain to another will actually work. I am involved in two parts of this work. To put security schemes into the AUTHENTICATE exchanges and IP address assignment in the ASSOCIATE exchange. Let's talk about the IP address assignment. A scenario would have the ASSOCIATE REQUEST have an address request Information Element (IE-addr-req); it would have IPv4 and IPv6 flags (so you can get either or both back). An IPv6 IE in the ASSOCIATION RESPONSE would look like an IPv6 RA packet. An IPv4 IE would look like a DHCP response packet. This would be pasted up to that kernel in the MLME-MAC-Response, before Link establishment. Here is the question: Could the kernel accept and handle this information without the Link being up? Given the speed of standards work, we have a couple years to get this working :) Potentially by the next 802.11 meeting at the end of March, I could have diagrams of what the ASSOCIATION frames would look like and it would be really great if someone could actually code up a working implementation for Proof of Concept. I am NOT a programmer. Oh, putting a security exchange in the AUTHENTICATION is on the table as well. I am personally pushing HIP, but we will parametrise it for also IKEv2 and 802.1X to establish the WPA MSK, PTK, and GTK (these are the various keys used in WPA). Oh you can see the various presentation on 802.11ai by going to: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/documents and selecting TGai for the currrent efforts and FIA SG for the study group efforts https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/10/11-10-1146-00-0fia-feasible-exchange.ppt is a presentation I made back in September showing some feasible exchanges. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
