Capwap Mailing List: Fwd: CONSENSUS CONFIRMATION: #138, #217, #247, #248, #249, #250, #251 & #252

[Margaret Wasserman (margaret]

Hi All,

Here are the results of the call for consensus confirmation that was  
sent to the list on April 2nd.

> 248 Both IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses not required.
> 250 Clarification onDTLSRehandshake/DTLSPeerAuthorize/
> DTLSIncomingSession
> 252 Hearbeat timer is undefined

No one objected to the editors' proposed resolutions to these issues.

> 217 What is frame format with WTP encrypts/decrypts?

No one objected to including the previously-agreed fix in the new  
document.

> There were also four substantive issues discussed by the group:
>
> 247 MAC Addresses can be larger than 6 octets

There was discussion of this issue, and consensus emerged to adopt  
the editors' proposed resolution with one modification:  the type  
field will be changed to a length field.

> 249 UDP-Lite as optional transport for CAPWAP

There was no disagreement with the editors' proposed resolution.

> 251 Retransmission of control packets is not exponential

There was no disagreement with the editors' proposed resolution.

> 138 Support and negotiation of WTP data encryption in the CAPWAP
> protocol

There was some discussion of this issue, with two people who were not  
in Prague speaking out against the proposed resolution and two people  
who were not in Prague speaking out in favor of the proposed  
resolution.  There were also messages from some of the people who did  
attend the meeting in Prague, supporting the conclusions that we  
reached at the meeting, even in light of the arguments made on the list.

So, the chairs believe that the group continues to have rough  
consensus to proceed with the proposed resolution to issue #138, as  
reached in Prague.

The editors will now publish documents with the agreed changes, so  
that we can send both documents (the CAPWAP base spec and the IEEE  
802.11 binding) to the IEEE for Review.  The IEEE needs about one  
month to review these documents before their meeting in May, so we  
will be working to get these documents to them as quickly as possible.

We also expect to be starting a Working Group Last Call  on both  
documents fairly soon, once we have determined the status of a few  
remaining issues.

Dorothy, Mani & Margaret
The CAPWAP WG Chairs