Actually, the ZigBee Alliance has adopted PANA/EAP for the ZigBee IP stack, which is a specification of an IPv6 stack using 6lowpan over 802.15.4-2006 (not 2003) based on IETF standards. This is independent from the SEP 2.0 application profile, which incidentally uses TLS.

At the time of development, there was no EAP transport specified for any 802.15 standard. The most expedient route for us at the time was to use PANA (RFC 5191), which uses UDP datagrams which are accommodated easily in 6lowpan without requiring any changes. With addition of the PANA relay (RFC 6345), it provides an effective EAP transport, especially where the authentication server is not in direct contact with the joining node. Any EAP transport for 802.15 networks also needs to take this into consideration given the topologies formed in 802.15 networks (well, at least 802.15.4)

Robert


On 29/09/2011 2:19 AM, Benjamin A. Rolfe wrote:
There is an obvious difference in scope: The scope of the ZigBee SEP profile is specifically Demand Response and Load Management applications. ZigBee uses IEEE P802.15.4-2003. The scope of the referenced PAR includes all current members of the 802.15 family of standards, which includes 5 distinct MAC and PHY standards (soon to be 6).

I'm sure Bob can elaborate further.

Hope that helps.

Regards

-Ben




Hi Bob,

As you know, Zigbee Alliance has already adopted EAP/PANA for network access authentication and key agreement for Smart Energy Profile 2.0.

Is the problem you are seeking to solve the same problem, or a different one?

Thanks.

Alper





On Sep 23, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

This week the PAR for KMP passed within 802.15:

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/11/15-11-0613-03-0kmp-key-management-protocol-par.doc https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/11/15-11-0665-03-0kmp-kmp-5c-draft.doc

In the PAR we are requesting the creation of a Recommended Practice that will be identified as 802.15.8.

Next step is to get IEEE 802 approval which will be at the Atlanta meeting week prior to IETF.

For all the current documents for the KMPIG:

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/documents?is_group=0kmp

In particular

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/11/15-11-0650-00-0kmp-kmp-for-802-15.ppt

GIves the latest thoughts on how the shim will work and how the document will be structured.

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