Internet-Draft RFC8110-to-IEEE July 2024
Kumari & Harkins Expires 9 January 2025 [Page]
Workgroup:
Network Working Group
Internet-Draft:
draft-wkumari-rfc8110-to-ieee-01
Updates:
RFC8110 (if approved)
Published:
Intended Status:
Informational
Expires:
Authors:
W. Kumari
Google, LLC
D. Harkins
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise

Transferring Opportunistic Wireless Encryption to the IEEE 802.11 Working Group

Abstract

RFC8110 describes Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE), a mode that allows unauthenticated clients to connect to a network using encrypted traffic. This document transfers the ongoing maintenance and further development of the protocol to the IEEE 802.11 Working Group.

This document updates RFC8110 by noting that future work on the protocol described in RFC8110 will occur in the IEEE 802.11 Working Group.

About This Document

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

[RFC8110] describes Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE), a mode of opportunistic security [RFC7435] for IEEE Std 802.11 that provides encryption of the wireless medium without authentication.

Since publication, [RFC8110] (also known as "[Wi-Fi_Enhanced_Open]") has been widely implemented and deployed.

[IEEE_802.11] has requested [IEEE_LS] that in order to allow for ongoing maintenance and further development of the protocol, and to ensure that the protocol remains in sync with the IEEE protocols, future work on the protocol described in RFC8110 will now occur in [IEEE_802.11]. This document is a concurrence.

2. Transfer of Maintenance

At the request of [IEEE_802.11], in order to allow for ongoing maintenance and further development of the protocol, and to ensure that the protocol remains in sync with the IEEE protocols, this document specifies that future work on the protocol described in RFC8110 will now occur in [IEEE_802.11].

The protocol defined in RFC8110 will be duplicated in [IEEE_802.11] such that that document alone will be enough to implement it and any further maintenance or modification of the protocol will be performed in IEEE under its policies and procedures.

3. Security Considerations

This document simply notes that future work on the protocol described in RFC8110 will now occur in the IEEE. As such, it does not introduce any new security considerations.

4. IANA Considerations

This document has no IANA actions.

5. References

5.1. Normative References

[RFC8110]
Harkins, D., Ed. and W. Kumari, Ed., "Opportunistic Wireless Encryption", RFC 8110, DOI 10.17487/RFC8110, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8110>.

5.2. Informative References

[IEEE_802.11]
"IEEE 802.11 Working Group", n.d., <https://www.ieee802.org/11/>.
[IEEE_LS]
"Liaison Statement from IEEE 802.11 to the IETF - OWE (RFC8110) now in 802.11", n.d., <https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1929/>.
[RFC7435]
Dukhovni, V., "Opportunistic Security: Some Protection Most of the Time", RFC 7435, DOI 10.17487/RFC7435, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7435>.
[Wi-Fi_Enhanced_Open]
"Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Enhanced Open™: Transparent Wi-Fi® protections without complexity", n.d., <https://www.wi-fi.org/beacon/dan-harkins/wi-fi-certified-enhanced-open-transparent-wi-fi-protections-without-complexity>.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the IEEE 802.11 working group for their work, and for taking on the responsibility for future work on the protocol described in RFC8110.

In addition, we would like to thank Stephen Farrell, who AD sponsored the original work, as well as Clemens Schimpe, Dorothy Stanley, Paul Wouters, Eric Vyncke, Mike Montemurro, and Peter Yee.

Apologies to anyone we forgot to acknowledge; RFC8110 was written 7+ years ago and we have had many conversations with many people since then...

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Authors' Addresses

Warren Kumari
Google, LLC
Dan Harkins
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise