Wireless Standards and Associations

There are several standards bodies and industry associations. The Wi-Fi Alliance is a trade industry association that made its mission to promote the use of wireless networks. The IEEE and the IETF are independent standards for wireless networking and many other technologies.

Wi-Fi Alliance

Wi-Fi Alliance?http://www.wifialliance.com

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)?http://www.wifialliance.com/OpenSection/protected_access.asp

IEEE

802.11 document site?http://www.802wirelessworld.com/index.jsp

802.1x mailer?http://www.ieee802.org/1/private/email/

Current status of 802.11i?http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/Reports/tgi_update.htm

IEEE 802.1 maintenance page for latest drafts?http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/802.1aa.html

IEEE LAN/MAN standards?http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/std/lanman/

Linksec mailer?http://www.ieee802.org/linksec/email/mail1.html

Official 802.11i website?http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/

The Unofficial 802.11 Security Web Page?http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/IEEE/ (good site for IEEE WLAN information)

IETF

EAP archives?http://mail.frascone.com/pipermail/eap/

IETF EAP site?http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/eap-charter.html

IETF EAP WG?http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/EAP/eapissues.html

IETF EAP WG charter?http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/eap-charter.html

Jesse Walker's IETF Internet draft (February 2004)?http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-walker-ieee802-req-04.txt

RFC search?http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html

Working drafts of IETF EAP?http://ietf.levkowetz.com/drafts/eap/rfc2284bis/

Other Sites

ArcFour algorithm?http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/draft-kaukonencipher-arcfour-03.txt

C implementations of 802.11i algorithms?http://www.deadhat.com/wlancrypto/

Cisco Aironet Security?http://www.cisco.com/go/aironet/security

Configuring load-balancing on VPN 3000 concentrators?http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2284/products_tech_note09186a0080094b4a

Deploying Cisco Secure ACS for Windows in a Cisco Aironet environment?http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps2086/products_white_paper09186a00801495a1.shtml

Latest PPP assignments?http://www.iana.org/assignments/ppp-numbers

LEAP article in Packet magazine (for manager types)?http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/784/packet/exclusive/apr02.html