eap Mailing List: Bar-meeting on Handover keying design

[Nakhjiri Madjid-MNAKHJI1 (Madjid.Nakhjiri]

Title: Bar-meeting on Handover keying design

Hi,

This is a solicitation for folks interested in a Bar-meeting (Bar pre-BoF or whatever the meeting ends up being) discussing handover keying (I call it HOKEY, and have created a semi-formal proposal in case we end up needing a BOF name for Dallas, who knows it does not hurt to have these things handy :) ). I have a link to an old draft from April down at the bottom of this email, but unfortunately, I did not have time to write a new version of the draft. The old draft may be enough to initiate some discussion. Please let me know if you are interested in participating. We will decide on the "happy hour" time and location :)

I have not yet set up a proper mailing list, so if you are simply interested in checking things out, ***you do not need to send me an email yet*** as I am sending this email to several lists.

If I manage to set of a mailing list in time for IETF, an announcement is to follow.

Regards,

Madjid Nakhjiri

Handover Keying (HOKEY)
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The recent "AAA Key Management" guidelines as well as several IEEE and WiMAX specification documents attest to the increasing popularity of approach of striving to benefit from the interaction with the authentication (AAA) servers during the network entry to provision further keying materials for support of other networking applications or handovers to other networks.

Recent attempts in applying these methods to access technologies with mobility support (such as WiMAX) has shown that the existing specifications may needs to be further examined or extended from the point of view of handover keying or networking application keying support.

It seems to be more efficient to instead initiate a well-thought and documented design with a first-hand focus on mobility and handover keying and authorization mechanisms. The initial goal of this activity can be to examine the combination of the EAP and AAA documentations to utilize the EAP keying framework and the AAA infrastructure for handover keying and provide an appropriate key hierarchy that can handle the requirements stated in "AAA key management" and further venturing into other network applications that may need keying support.

A background problem statement can be found at

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nakhjiri-eap-ho-00.txt