Building a MACsec Draft

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Building a MACsec Draft

• Allyn Romanow
• IEEE802.1 LinkSec July 2003

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Overview

• General comments
• Look at sections of the document
• See where various issues can go in the doc
• Answer questions

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Why?

• Follow same pattern as other 802.1 standards
• Usefulness of having a template to organize
  contributions

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Outline go over general flow

• Overview
• (References)
• Definitions
• (Abbreviations, Conformance)
• Secure support of the MAC Service- whats the
  point here, service
• Principles of Secure Network Operation- how does
  this fit, what happens
• Principles of MAC Security Entity operation-
  details of the solution, how it happens

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Outline

• MAC Security Protocol (MACsec)
• Encoding of MACsec PDUs - boilerplate
• Management of MAC Security
• Management Protocol - boilerplate
• Annex A PICS - boilerplate
• Annex Y Bibliography
• Other Annexes context, explanations
• Annex Z Informative Commentary history,
  unresolved issues

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Where some issues go

• Scope 1.2
• Requirements some in cl01, full discussion in
  annex
• Authentication in another document, with
  pointer in ch. 6
• Multipoint - ch. 7 Principles of Network
  Operation
• Multihop ch. 7