Subject: [93attendees] Wi-Fi privacy at IETF and IEEE802 meetings

From: "Zuniga, Juan Carlos" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 11:24:51 +0000

As you may remember, we carried out three Wi-Fi privacy experiments at the past IETF91, IEEE 802 March plenary, and IETF92 meetings.

>From now on the Wi-Fi privacy network setup will be part of the normal IETF and IEEE 802 networks, supporting hence users that are running clients with private MAC addresses.

The IEEE has issued a press release about the experiments and this has created good interest from the media. Below is a list of links to the IEEE press release and some of the related articles:

*          IEEE Press Release: IEEE Announces Successful Wireless Privacy Trials at IETF and IEEE 802(r) Meetings
-        http://<http://standards.ieee.org/news/2015/wireless_privacy_trials.html>standards.ieee.org/news/2015/wireless_privacy_trials.html<http://standards.ieee.org/news/2015/wireless_privacy_trials.html>

*          MAC Address Privacy Inches Towards Standardisation "IEEE hums along to IETF anti-surveillance tune"
-        The Register, June 26, 2015, http<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/26/mac_address_privacy_inches_towards_standardisation/>://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/26/mac_address_privacy_inches_towards_standardisation<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/26/mac_address_privacy_inches_towards_standardisation/>/<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/26/mac_address_privacy_inches_towards_standardisation/>

*          IEEE Group Recommends Random MAC Addresses for Wi-Fi Security
-        CSO, July 8, 2015 , http://<http://www.csoonline.com/article/2945044/cyber-attacks-espionage/ieee-groups-recommends-random-mac-addresses-for-wi-fi-security.html>www.csoonline.com/article/2945044/cyber-attacks-espionage/ieee-groups-recommends-random-mac-addresses-for-wi-fi-security.html<http://www.csoonline.com/article/2945044/cyber-attacks-espionage/ieee-groups-recommends-random-mac-addresses-for-wi-fi-security.html>

*          IEEE Study Group Recommends Improvements in Wi-Fi Security
-        FierceWireless, July 9, 2015, http://<http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/ieee-study-group-recommends-improvements-wi-fi-security/2015-07-09>www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/ieee-study-group-recommends-improvements-wi-fi-security/2015-07-09<http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/ieee-study-group-recommends-improvements-wi-fi-security/2015-07-09>

*          MAC Address Randomization Gets Closer to Becoming a Standard
-        Softpedia, June 26, 2015, http://<http://news.softpedia.com/news/mac-address-randomization-gets-closer-to-becoming-a-standard-485372.shtml>news.softpedia.com/news/mac-address-randomization-gets-closer-to-becoming-a-standard-485372.shtml<http://news.softpedia.com/news/mac-address-randomization-gets-closer-to-becoming-a-standard-485372.shtml>

*          IEEE said it successfully tested improved privacy features for Wi-Fi at field trials.
-        RCR Wireless, Kelly Hill, June 26, 2015, http://www.rcrwireless.com/20150626/test-and-measurement/test-and-measurement-keysight-to-work-with-korea-telecom-on-5g-tag6

Also, last week on July 17, IEEE 802 approved a new project to produce a document describing a privacy threat model and recommendations for IEEE 802 protocol developers, which will eventually become the IEEE 802E specification.

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Juan Carlos Zuniga