On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 04:17:58PM -0800, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am in the IEEE 802.11ai session. This is 'Fast Initial Link' setup, a > new task group in 802.11. > Hi Robert, I'm pretty interested in this, I'll follow up privately from another account... > 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? > If I understand you right, this would be more or less like an inline (or in-negotiation) method for address resolution. I don't think it would be particularly difficult to add this support to the softmac code. > 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. > Thanks, should be interesting reading. --Kyle -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
