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IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) Profile for Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP)
RFC 7494

Yes

(Benoît Claise)

No Objection

(Adrian Farrel)
(Alia Atlas)
(Alissa Cooper)
(Barry Leiba)
(Brian Haberman)
(Jari Arkko)
(Joel Jaeggli)
(Martin Stiemerling)
(Pete Resnick)
(Richard Barnes)
(Spencer Dawkins)

Note: This ballot was opened for revision 07 and is now closed.

(Benoît Claise; former steering group member) Yes

Yes (for -07)

                            

(Adrian Farrel; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (for -07)

                            

(Alia Atlas; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (for -07)

                            

(Alissa Cooper; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (for -07)

                            

(Barry Leiba; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (for -07)

                            

(Brian Haberman; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (for -07)

                            

(Jari Arkko; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (for -07)

                            

(Joel Jaeggli; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (for -07)

                            

(Kathleen Moriarty; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection

No Objection (2014-12-10 for -07)
Thank you for addressing the SecDir review:
https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/secdir/current/msg05260.html

(Martin Stiemerling; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (for -07)

                            

(Pete Resnick; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (for -07)

                            

(Richard Barnes; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (for -07)

                            

(Spencer Dawkins; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (for -07)

                            

(Stephen Farrell; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (2014-12-15 for -07)

- intro, last para: Figure 1's last row says "WTP" in the
Local MAC column, but the text here implies that it should
say AC - what am I getting wrong?

- sec cons. saying WAP and AC messages "is encrypted" is not
quite what you want - I think you need to say that those
messages have origin authentication and data integrity (which
they should have if "encrypted" properly, and if they're not
that not this doc's fault).

(Ted Lemon; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (2014-12-16 for -07)
Does the abstract really need to be as long as it is?   Wouldn't it be sufficient to say something like this?

   The CAPWAP protocol binding for IEEE 802.11 defines two MAC
   modes for IEEE 802.11 WTP: Split and Local MAC.
   In the Split MAC mode, the partitioning of encryption/decryption
   functions are not clearly defined.  This leads to interoperability
   issues, especially when the Access Controller (AC) and Wireless 
   Transmission Point (WTP) come from different vendors.
   To prevent interoperability issues, this specification defines an
   IEEE 802.11 MAC profile message element in which each profile
   specifies an unambiguous division of encryption functionality
   between the WTP and AC.

I think this is sufficient information for people to figure out what the purpose of the document is, and then people who are interested in the stated problem will read the document.   The other information in the abstract seems unnecessary, and increases the workload of the reader who is deciding whether or not the document is something they need to read based on the abstract.