[HOKEY] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hokey-arch-design-08.txt> (Handover Keying (HOKEY) Architecture Design) to Informational RFC

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The IESG has received a request from the Handover Keying WG (hokey) to
consider the following document:
- 'Handover Keying (HOKEY) Architecture Design'
  <draft-ietf-hokey-arch-design-08.txt> as an Informational RFC

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Abstract


   The Handover Keying (HOKEY) Working Group seeks to minimize handover
   delay due to authentication when a peer moves from one point of
   attachment to another.  Work has progressed on two different
   approaches to reduce handover delay: early authentication (so that
   authentication does not need to be performed during handover), and
   reuse of cryptographic material generated during an initial
   authentication to save time during re-authentication.  A basic
   assumption is that the mobile host or "peer" is initially
   authenticated using the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP),
   executed between the peer and an EAP server as defined in RFC 3748.

   This document defines the HOKEY architecture.  Specifically, it
   describes design objectives, the functional environment within which
   handover keying operates, the functions to be performed by the HOKEY
   architecture itself, and the assignment of those functions to
   architectural components.  It goes on to illustrate the operation of
   the architecture within various deployment scenarios that are
   described more fully in other documents produced by the HOKEY Working
   Group.




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http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-hokey-arch-design/

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