IAPP development status and technical reasons behind it withdrawn

Hi,
I have few questions related to IAPP (Inter AP Protocol),
although IEEE 802
executive committee approved its withdrawal around february,
2006

1- Does HOSTAPD group have any plan for further IAPP
development or for it 
replacement?
2- What were the technical reasons behind 802.11F
withdrawn?

Thanks,
Amin

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The following link explain withdrawal of 802.11F
specification:
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/Min
utes/Cons_Minutes_Nov-2005.pdf

Regards,
Amin


>From: "Amin Abdul" <amin_abdulhotmail.com>
>To: hostapshmoo.com
>Subject: IAPP development status and technical reasons
behind it withdrawn
>Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:12:17 +0000
>
>Hi,
>I have few questions related to IAPP (Inter AP
Protocol), although IEEE 802
>executive committee approved its withdrawal around
february, 2006
>
>1- Does HOSTAPD group have any plan for further IAPP
development or for it
>replacement?
>2- What were the technical reasons behind 802.11F
withdrawn?
>
>Thanks,
>Amin
>
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On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:12:17PM +0000, Amin Abdul wrote:

> I have few questions related to IAPP (Inter AP
Protocol), although IEEE 802
> executive committee approved its withdrawal around
february, 2006
> 
> 1- Does HOSTAPD group have any plan for further IAPP
development or for it 
> replacement?

I don't think there is much point in trying to continue with
IEEE
802.11F at this point. Since IEEE 802.11F itself has very
minimal
functionality alone, I would need to ask what functionality
you are
looking for in order to be able to answer the second part of
the
question.

If there is some functionality that is desired and there is
enough
interest in getting support for it, likelyhood of something
happening is
much higher than just for IEEE 802.11F as a marketing
material bullet
point (which is more or less the main use for which it has
been
requested previously).

Every now and then, I take a look at CAPWAP, but so far, I
haven't had
enough time/interest to actually go into details of what
could be useful
for hostapd from that work. Anyway, I would prefer to hear
of a
reasonable use case first in order to understand what people
would fine
useful.

> 2- What were the technical reasons behind 802.11F
withdrawn?

IEEE 802.11F was a trial-use recommended practice, not part
of the IEEE
802.11 standard, and it had a two year lifetime. No one
requested the
trial-use period to be extended and there did not seem to be
any
interest in deploying systems using IEEE 802.11F.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP
id EFC895FA
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