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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) W. Kumari
Request for Comments: 9672 Google, LLC
Updates: 8110 D. Harkins
Category: Informational Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
ISSN: 2070-1721 October November 2024

Transferring Opportunistic Wireless Encryption to the IEEE 802.11
Working Group

Abstract

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.

Status of This Memo

This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.

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(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Transfer of Maintenance
3. Security Considerations
4. IANA Considerations
5. References
5.1. Normative References
5.2. Informative References
Acknowledgments
Authors' Addresses

1. Introduction

Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE) [RFC8110] is a mode of
opportunistic security [RFC7435] for IEEE Std 802.11
[IEEE_802.11-2024] that provides encryption of the wireless medium
without authentication.

Since publication, [RFC8110] (also known as "[Wi-Fi_Enhanced_Open]")
has been widely implemented and deployed.

The IEEE 802.11 Working Group [IEEE_802.11] has requested [IEEE_LS] that in order to allow for
ongoing maintenance and further development of the protocol, ability
to maintain and develop OWE (see [IEEE_LS]) to ensure that the
protocol remains in sync with the IEEE protocols, protocols. This document
represents concurrence that future work on the protocol described in RFC8110 OWE [RFC8110] will now
occur in
[IEEE_802.11]. This document is a concurrence. the IEEE 802.11 Working Group.

2. Transfer of Maintenance

At the request of [IEEE_802.11],

This document represents concurrence that future work on OWE
[RFC8110] will now occur in order to allow for ongoing
maintenance and further development of the protocol, and IEEE 802.11 Working Group
[IEEE_802.11] to ensure that the protocol remains in sync with the
IEEE protocols, this
document specifies that future work on the protocol described in
RFC8110 will now occur in [IEEE_802.11]. protocols.

The OWE protocol defined in RFC8110 [RFC8110] will be duplicated in by the IEEE 802.11
Working Group [IEEE_802.11] such that that the document alone will be
enough to implement it implement, maintain, and any
further maintenance or modification of modify the protocol will be performed
in within the
IEEE under its policies and procedures.

3. Security Considerations

This document simply notes that future work on the protocol described
in [RFC8110] will now occur in the IEEE. As such, it does not
introduce any new security considerations.

4. IANA Considerations

This document has no IANA actions.

5. References

5.1. Normative References

[RFC8110] Harkins, D., Ed. and W. Kumari, Ed., "Opportunistic
Wireless Encryption", RFC 8110, DOI 10.17487/RFC8110,
March 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8110>.

5.2. Informative References

[IEEE_802.11]
IEEE, IEEE 802.11 Working Group,
<https://www.ieee802.org/11/>.

[IEEE_802.11-2024]
IEEE, "tbd", tbd, May 2024, <tbd>.

[IEEE_LS] "Liaison statement: OWE (RFC8110) now in 802.11", IETF
Liaison Statement, May 2024,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1929/>.

[RFC7435] Dukhovni, V., "Opportunistic Security: Some Protection
Most of the Time", RFC 7435, DOI 10.17487/RFC7435,
December 2014, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7435>.

[Wi-Fi_Enhanced_Open]
Harkins, D., "Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Enhanced Open: Transparent
Wi-Fi protections without complexity", Wi-Fi Alliance, The
Beacon Blog, <https://www.wi-fi.org/beacon/dan-harkins/wi-
fi-certified-enhanced-open-transparent-wi-fi-protections-
without-complexity>.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the IEEE 802.11 Working Group for
their work, and for taking on the responsibility for future work on
the protocol described in RFC 8110.

In addition, we would like to thank Stephen Farrell, the AD that
sponsored the original work, as well as Clemens Schimpe, Dorothy
Stanley, Paul Wouters, Eric Vyncke, Mike Montemurro, and Peter Yee.

Apologies to anyone we forgot to acknowledge; RFC 8110 was written 7+
years ago and we have had many conversations with many people since
then...

Authors' Addresses

Warren Kumari
Google, LLC
Email: warren@kumari.net

Dan Harkins
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
Email: daniel.harkins@hpe.com