Carol Ansley (Affiliation: Self), Chair
Users and regulatory agencies are concerned about protecting personal
information such as location, movements, contacts and activities.
IEEE 802.11 is cognisant of these issues and through
this task group will strive to provide enhanced data privacy for all users.
The Enhanced Data Privacy Task Group came out of a study group within the IEEE 802.11 working group originally considering the merits and challenges presented by the privacy-related initiatives behind the deployment of randomized and changing MAC addresses within 802.11-based networks that grew to also include other privacy-related concerns.
This amendment specifies modifications to the IEEE Std 802.11 medium access
control (MAC) specification to specify new mechanisms that address and improve
user privacy.
Users and regulatory agencies are concerned about protecting personal
information such as locations, movements, contacts and activities, etc. Devices
incorporating IEEE Std 802.11 are ubiquitous, and
being compliant with IEEE Std 802.11 does not sufficiently protect users from
user tracking and user profiling attacks.
Work has been done in this area in IEEE Std 802.11aq-2018. To ensure continued
growth and support for IEEE Std 802.11, this project standardizes user privacy
solutions applicable to IEEE Std 802.11.
The group expects to have a participation of about 50 people during the
lifetime of the project, which is estimated to finish in September 2025.
The next steps are to proceed with teleconferences every 2 weeks and also meet
during the online May 2021 interim.
The first goal of TGbi is to identify potential areas of concern and use cases to be addressed. As use cases are identified, we will turn to the development of technical solutions and recommendations.
The task group welcomes all interested parties from industry and academia to participate.
Link to TGbi PAR
https://development.standards.ieee.org/myproject-web/public/view.html#pardetail/8772
Link to TGbi CSD
https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/20/11-20-1346-04-0rcm-csd-draft-for-privacy-amendment-of-rcm-project.docx
The task group met during the March Plenary. Stephen McCann and Jerome Henry were elected Vice Chairs. Amelia Andersdotter was appointed and confirmed as Secretary. Po-Kai Huang was appointed and confirmed as Technical Editor.
The upcoming teleconference schedule follows:
Thursday April 8
10am-12pmET – Composing working plan, then technical submissions
Thursday April 22
10am-12pmET
– Technical submissions
Thursday May
6
10am-12pmET – Interim Session Prep
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