Subject: Document Action: 'Transferring Opportunistic Wireless Encryption to the IEEE 802.11 Working Group' to Informational RFC (draft-wkumari-rfc8110-to-ieee-02.txt)
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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:02:48 -0700
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The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Transferring Opportunistic Wireless Encryption to the IEEE 802.11
   Working Group'
  (draft-wkumari-rfc8110-to-ieee-02.txt) as Informational RFC

This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF
Working Group.

The IESG contact person is Éric Vyncke.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wkumari-rfc8110-to-ieee/

Technical Summary

   RFC8110 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 RFC8110 by noting that future work on the
   protocol described in RFC8110 will occur in the IEEE 802.11 Working
   Group.

Working Group Summary

   This is an AD-sponsored I-D, i.e., not WG

IETF Trustees Note

   The authors of RFC8110 are Dan Harkins and Warren Kumari and are also involved in moving the maintenance of this protocol to the IEEE.    As authors they hold a shared copyright with the IETF Trust and they both have the ability to give the IEEE the needed rights to use the RFC8110 material in future IEEE works without any approval from the IETF Trust.
   ...
   The IETF Trust will continue in perpetuity to hold its currently held shared rights with the authors on RFC8110 which means that RFC8110 will remain available to the IETF to use and to create derivative works from along with everything else permitted by the TLP licensing terms

Document Quality

  This is not a specification, i.e., no implementation (for info, it transfers RFC 8110 to the IEEE and RFC 8110 has some implementations: hostapd, wpa_supplicant albeit with a different HKPD).

Personnel

   Éric Vyncke is both Document Shepherd and the Responsible Area Director.