Capwap Mailing List: RE: (no subject)

[Pat R. Calhoun (pcalhoun]

> Why not achieve these goals by:
> - Running PANA between the station and access router.
PANA assumes a completely different architecture - not one that any of the 
startups seemed to have adopted. I suppose it would be ok for the IETF to work 
on something that is not being productized, but I'd wonder why...

> - Having AP relay interesting IEEE 802.11 bits to the access router as it
> bridges (forwards) the packets. This can be carried as some sort of auxilary
> data as part of the IEEE headers. IEEE (SDO) could define this.
This is what LWAPP does, right? I don't see this as a MAC or PHY layer thing, 
so I don't see why IEEE would be interested.

PatC