Opportunistic Wireless Encryption
RFC 8110

Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8110, changed abstract to 'This memo specifies an extension to IEEE Std 802.11 to provide for opportunistic (unauthenticated) encryption to the wireless media.', changed pages to 12, changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2017-03-30, changed IESG state to RFC Published)

[Ballot comment]
I had some questions as I started reading this draft, but you did a nice job of answering them.  Thanks for your work on this!

[Ballot discuss]
* Section 4.3.

* How is this Element ID (255) allocated? Is this going to have to come from the IEEE or is it part of an experimental range? I am just checking to make sure that we are not missing a required action for this.

* What is a "single octet integer in little-endian format"? Why does endianness matter for a single byte field?

"Element ID, Length, and ID Extension are all single octet integers in little-endian format."

[Ballot discuss]
* Section 4.3.

* How is this Element ID (255) allocated? Is this going to have to come from the IEEE or is it part of an experimental range?

* What is a "single octet integer in little-endian format"? Why does endianness matter for a single byte field?

"Element ID, Length, and ID Extension are all single octet integers in little-endian format."

(Via drafts-lastcall-comment@iana.org): IESG/Authors/WG Chairs:

The IANA Services Operator has reviewed draft-harkins-owe-05.txt, which is currently in Last Call, and has the following comments:

We understand that this document doesn't require any registry actions.

While it's often helpful for a document's IANA Considerations section to remain in place upon publication even if there are no actions, if the authors strongly prefer to remove it, we do not object.

If this assessment is not accurate, please respond as soon as possible.

Thank you,

Sabrina Tanamal
IANA Services Specialist
PTI

The following Last Call announcement was sent out:

From: The IESG
To: "IETF-Announce"
CC: draft-harkins-owe@ietf.org, stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie
Reply-To: ietf@ietf.org
Sender:
Subject: Last Call:  (Opportunistic Wireless Encryption) to Informational RFC


The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
the following document:
- 'Opportunistic Wireless Encryption'
  as Informational RFC

The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2017-01-13. Exceptionally, comments may be
sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the
beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting.

Abstract


  This memo specifies an extension to IEEE Std 802.11 to provide for
  opportunistic (unauthenticated) encryption to the wireless media.

The file can be obtained via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-harkins-owe/

IESG discussion can be tracked via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-harkins-owe/ballot/


No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.