Subject: [Madinas] FW: [ieee-ietf-coord] Introducing IEEE 802.11bh and IEEE 802.11bi

From: "Eric Vyncke (evyncke)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 06:20:54 +0000

This may be of interest for this list

-éric

From: ieee-ietf-coord <[email-masked]> on behalf of Peter Yee <[email-masked]>
Date: Thursday, 13 May 2021 at 20:05
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ieee-ietf-coord] Introducing IEEE 802.11bh and IEEE 802.11bi

For those of you on the IETF side of this mailing list, I'd like to bring you attention to a couple of new task groups that have been started up in IEEE 802.11. Both of these task groups arose from the initial efforts in the Randomized and Changing MAC address Topic Information Group, which was followed by a matching Study Group.

IEEE 802.11bh deals with operational issues that arise in the presence of randomized and changing MAC addresses. IEEE 802.11bi looks at enhanced data privacy, since there's more to privacy than just randomizing MAC addresses.

An IEEE press release/blog post describing the new task groups can be found at: https://beyondstandards.ieee.org/data-privacy-and-ease-of-use-in-wireless-networks/.

If you are interested in participating in these working groups, they continue to meet during online virtual IEEE 802 meetings (6 times per year) and scheduled teleconferences (more frequently). The IEEE 802 meetings for July and September are already confirmed as being online. These have a small meeting fee associated with them. Whether the meetings in November and beyond will be virtual has not yet been decided. Teleconferences do not have any fees. More details on when meetings and calls take place can be found at: https://www.ieee802.org/11/.

                                -Peter