RFC 9672 on Transferring Opportunistic Wireless Encryption to the IEEE 802.11 Working Group

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        RFC 9672

        Title:      Transferring Opportunistic Wireless Encryption to 
                    the IEEE 802.11 Working Group 
        Author:     W. Kumari,
                    D. Harkins
        Status:     Informational
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       December 2024
        Mailbox:    warren@kumari.net,
                    daniel.harkins@hpe.com
        Pages:      4
        Updates:    RFC 8110

        I-D Tag:    draft-wkumari-rfc8110-to-ieee-02.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9672

        DOI:        10.17487/RFC9672

RFC 8110 describes Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE), a mode
that allows unauthenticated clients to connect to a network using
encrypted traffic. This document transfers the ongoing maintenance
and further development of the protocol to the IEEE 802.11 Working
Group.

This document updates RFC 8110 by noting that future work on the
protocol described therein will occur in the IEEE 802.11 Working
Group.


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