Atoca WG Gabor Bajko Internet Draft Nokia Intended Status: Informational October 24, 2011 Expires: April 24, 2011 Emergency Alert Service support in IEEE 802.11 networks draft-bajko-atoca-wlan-eas-00 Abstract This document attempts to explain what level of support for Authority to Citizen type of Emergency Alerts the IEEE 802.11 specification defined protocol has. The IEEE 802.11 specification is evolving by defining new amendments to it, which are then rolled into the base spec. The 802.11u amendment, published in November 2010, contains support for Citizen to Authority type of Emergency Calls and Authority to Citizen type of Alerts. The -00 version of the draft is just the skeleton, to meet the deadline for -00 draft submissions, version -01 will have the details. Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on April 24, 2011. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. Bajko Expires April 24, 2012 [Page 1] EAS in wlan October 24, 2011 This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Content 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Conventions and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Bajko Expires April 24, 2012 [Page 2] EAS in wlan October 24, 2011 1. Introduction 2. Conventions and Terminology 2.1 Conventions used in This Document The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [1]. 2.2 Terminology 5. IANA considerations 6. Security considerations TBD. 7. Normative References 8. Informative References 8. Author's Addresses Gabor Bajko gabor(dot)bajko(at)nokia(dot)com Bajko Expires April 24, 2012 [Page 3]