Transferring Opportunistic Wireless Encryption to the IEEE 802.11 Working Group
draft-wkumari-rfc8110-to-ieee-02

Network Working Group                                          W. Kumari
Internet-Draft                                               Google, LLC
Updates: 8110 (if approved)                                   D. Harkins
Intended status: Informational                Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
Expires: 8 February 2025                                   7 August 2024

   Transferring Opportunistic Wireless Encryption to the IEEE 802.11
                             Working Group
                    draft-wkumari-rfc8110-to-ieee-02

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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   rfc8110-to-ieee/.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Transfer of Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   5.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     5.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     5.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   Change Log  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4

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.

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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,
              March 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/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,
              December 2014, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7435>.

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   [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...

Change Log

   *  From -00 to -01:

      -  Fixed a nit ("This documents updates" -> "This document
         updates")

      -  We have the liaison from the IEEE 802.11 WG; update to point at
         the liaison statement.

      -  For some reason, pushing the -01 version to GitHub didn't
         trigger the build.  Trying to post manually.

Authors' Addresses

   Warren Kumari
   Google, LLC
   Email: warren@kumari.net

   Dan Harkins
   Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
   Email: daniel.harkins@hpe.com

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