Capwap Mailing List: Re: Certificates, Discovery Request/Reply, and validation.

[Yoshihiro Ohba (yohba]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:37:16PM -0700, Pat R. Calhoun wrote:
> >> We seem to be focused on EAP only, but again, I think the problem is much 
> >> >>greater in scope - hence CAPWAP.
> 
> >It is curious to see a lot of IEEE 802 specific technologies mentioned
> >here.  Why not discuss this issue in IEEE 802?
> 
> We talked about this at the meeting. We are NOT touching any of the 802.11 
> protocols. What we do must work with ALL IEEE 802.11 standards, hence the 
> LWAPP architecture.
> 
> Dorothy had lots to talk about why IEEE 802 doesn't need/want to touch this 
> work, but I can let her answer since she is the IEEE liason.

If IEEE 802 doesn't need/want to touch this L2-specific work, the reason 
might be one of the followings:

a) The problem does not exist, or 
b) The problem exists, but the IEEE does not think it is a long-term problem.

Which is the case?  Note that if the problem exists and the IEEE
thinks it is a long-term problem, I think the IEEE should take the
responsibility to solve the problem.

> 
> PatC

Yoshihiro Ohba