eap Mailing List: Re: EAP issue 376

[Bernard Aboba (bernard_aboba]

I believe that this reference should be to IEEE 802.11v (which is looking at 
"virtual AP" scaling proposals).


> From: Jouni Korhonen <jouni.korhonen [at] teliasonera.com>
> To: Bernard Aboba <bernard_aboba [at] hotmail.com>
> Subject: EAP issue 376
> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:49:29 +0200
>
> Hi Bernand,
>
> In the following text you had a missing reference. I am not sure which 
> publication you are referring to.
>
>    A number of enhancements have been proposed to the Beacon/Probe
>    Response mechanism in order to improve scalability and performance in
>    roaming scenarios.  These include allowing APs to announce
>    capabilities of neighbor APs as well as their own [IEEE.802.11k].
>    More scalable mechanisms for support of "virtual APs" within IEEE
>    802.11 have also been proposed [???]; generally these proposals
>    collapse multiple "virtual AP" advertisements into a single
>    advertisement.
>
>
> Cheers,
>         Jouni