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    <title abbrev="RFC8110-to-IEEE">Transferring abbrev="RFC 8110 to IEEE">Transferring Opportunistic Wireless Encryption to the IEEE 802.11 Working Group</title>
    <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-wkumari-rfc8110-to-ieee-02"/> name="RFC" value="9672"/>
    <author initials="W." surname="Kumari" fullname="Warren Kumari">
      <organization>Google, LLC</organization>
      <address>
        <email>warren@kumari.net</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="D." surname="Harkins" fullname="Dan Harkins">
      <organization>Hewlett-Packard Enterprise</organization>
      <address>
        <email>daniel.harkins@hpe.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <date year="2024" month="August" day="07"/> month="December"/>

    <keyword>IEEE</keyword>
    <keyword>OWE</keyword>
    <keyword>Opportunistic Wireless Encryption</keyword>
    <keyword>RFC8110</keyword>

    <abstract>
      <?line 56?>

<t>RFC8110

<t>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.</t>

      <t>This document updates RFC8110 RFC 8110 by noting that future work on the protocol described in RFC8110 therein will occur in the IEEE 802.11 Working Group.</t>
    </abstract>
    <note removeInRFC="true">
      <name>About This Document</name>
      <t>
        The latest revision of this draft can be found at <eref target="https://wkumari.github.io/draft-wkumari-rfc8110-to-ieee/draft-wkumari-rfc8110-to-ieee.html"/>.
        Status information for this document may be found at <eref target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wkumari-rfc8110-to-ieee/"/>.
      </t>
      <t>Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at
        <eref target="https://github.com/wkumari/draft-wkumari-rfc8110-to-ieee"/>.</t>
    </note>
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<section anchor="introduction">
      <name>Introduction</name>
      <t><xref target="RFC8110"/> describes Opportunistic

      <t>Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE), (OWE) <xref target="RFC8110"/> is a mode of
opportunistic security <xref target="RFC7435"/> for IEEE Std 802.11 that provides encryption
of the wireless medium without authentication.</t>
      <t>Since publication, <xref target="RFC8110"/> (also known as "<xref target="Wi-Fi_Enhanced_Open"/>") has been widely implemented and deployed.</t>
      <t><xref

<t>The IEEE 802.11 Working Group <xref target="IEEE_802.11"/> has requested <xref target="IEEE_LS"/> that in order to allow for ongoing maintenance and further development of the protocol, ability to maintain and develop OWE (see <xref target="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 <xref target="RFC8110"/> will now occur in <xref target="IEEE_802.11"/>. This document is a concurrence.</t>
the IEEE 802.11 Working Group.
</t>
    </section>
    <section anchor="transfer-of-maintenance">
      <name>Transfer of Maintenance</name>
      <t>At the request of

<t>
   This document represents concurrence that future work on OWE <xref target="IEEE_802.11"/>, target="RFC8110"/> will now occur in order to allow for ongoing maintenance
and further development of the  protocol, and IEEE 802.11 Working Group <xref target="IEEE_802.11"/> to ensure that the protocol remains in sync with the IEEE protocols, this document specifies that future
work on the protocols.  </t>
<t>
   The OWE protocol described in RFC8110 will now occur in <xref target="IEEE_802.11"/>.</t>
      <t>The protocol defined in RFC8110 target="RFC8110"/> will be duplicated in by the IEEE 802.11 Working
   Group <xref target="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.</t>
   procedures.
</t>
    </section>
    <section anchor="security-considerations">
      <name>Security Considerations</name>
      <t>This document simply notes that future work on the protocol described in
RFC8110
<xref target="RFC8110"/> will now occur in the IEEE. As such, it does not introduce any new
security considerations.</t>
    </section>
    <section anchor="iana-considerations">
      <name>IANA Considerations</name>
      <t>This document has no IANA actions.</t>
    </section>
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    <references anchor="sec-combined-references">
      <name>References</name>
      <references anchor="sec-normative-references">
        <name>Normative References</name>
        <reference anchor="RFC8110">
          <front>
            <title>Opportunistic Wireless Encryption</title>
            <author fullname="D. Harkins" initials="D." role="editor" surname="Harkins"/>
            <author fullname="W. Kumari" initials="W." role="editor" surname="Kumari"/>
            <date month="March" year="2017"/>
            <abstract>
              <t>This memo specifies an extension to IEEE Std 802.11 to provide for opportunistic (unauthenticated) encryption to the wireless media.</t>
            </abstract>
          </front>
          <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8110"/>
          <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8110"/>
        </reference>

	<xi:include href="https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8110.xml"/>

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      <references anchor="sec-informative-references">
        <name>Informative References</name>
        <reference anchor="RFC7435">
          <front>
            <title>Opportunistic Security: Some Protection Most of the Time</title>
            <author fullname="V. Dukhovni" initials="V." surname="Dukhovni"/>
            <date month="December" year="2014"/>
            <abstract>
              <t>This document defines the concept "Opportunistic Security" in the context of communications protocols. Protocol designs based on Opportunistic Security use encryption even when authentication is not available, and use authentication when possible, thereby removing barriers to the widespread use of encryption on the Internet.</t>
            </abstract>
          </front>
          <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="7435"/>
          <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC7435"/>
        </reference>

	<xi:include href="https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.7435.xml"/>

        <reference anchor="Wi-Fi_Enhanced_Open" target="https://www.wi-fi.org/beacon/dan-harkins/wi-fi-certified-enhanced-open-transparent-wi-fi-protections-without-complexity">
          <front>
            <title>Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Enhanced Open™: Open: Transparent Wi-Fi® Wi-Fi protections without complexity</title>
            <author>
            <author fullname="Dan Harkins">
              <organization/>
            </author>
            <date>n.d.</date>
          </front>
          <refcontent>Wi-Fi Alliance, The Beacon Blog</refcontent>
        </reference>

        <reference anchor="IEEE_802.11" quote-title="false" target="https://www.ieee802.org/11/">
          <front>
            <title>IEEE
            <title >IEEE 802.11 Working Group</title>
            <author>
              <organization/>
              <organization>IEEE</organization>
            </author>
            <date>n.d.</date>
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        <reference anchor="IEEE_LS" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1929/">
          <front>
            <title>Liaison Statement from IEEE 802.11 to the IETF - statement: OWE (RFC8110) now in 802.11</title>
            <author>
              <organization/>
            </author>
            <date>n.d.</date>
            <date month="May" year="2024"/>
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          <refcontent>IETF Liaison Statement</refcontent>
        </reference>

      </references>
    </references>
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<section numbered="false" anchor="acknowledgments">
      <name>Acknowledgments</name>
      <t>The authors would like to thank the IEEE 802.11 working group Working Group for their work,
and for taking on the responsibility for future work on the protocol
described in RFC8110.</t> RFC 8110.</t>
      <t>In addition, we would like to thank Stephen Farrell, who <contact fullname="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.</t> <contact fullname="Clemens Schimpe"/>, <contact fullname="Dorothy Stanley"/>, <contact fullname="Paul Wouters"/>, <contact fullname="Eric Vyncke"/>,
<contact fullname="Mike Montemurro"/>, and <contact fullname="Peter Yee"/>.</t>
      <t>Apologies to anyone we forgot to acknowledge; RFC8110 RFC 8110 was written 7+ years ago
and we have had many conversations with many people since then...</t>
    </section>
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      <name>Change Log</name>
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        <li>
          <t>From -00 to -01:
          </t>
          <ul spacing="normal">
            <li>
              <t>Fixed a nit ("This documents updates" -&gt; "This document updates")</t>
            </li>
            <li>
              <t>We have the liaison from the IEEE 802.11 WG; update to point at the liaison
statement.</t>
            </li>
            <li>
              <t>For some reason, pushing the -01 version to GitHub didn't trigger the
build. Trying to post manually.</t>
            </li>
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