P802.1AEdk: MAC Privacy protection

Full title: IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks–Media Access Control (MAC) Security – Amendment 4: MAC Privacy protection

This amendment specifies privacy enhancements that complement existing IEEE Std 802.1AE MAC Security capabilities, and reduce the ability of external observers to correlate user data frames, their sizes, transmission timing and transmission frequency with users’ identities and activities. It specifies an encapsulation format that allows one or more user data frames and padding octets to be carried within the confidentiality protected data of a consolidating frame, hiding the users’ MAC addresses and original frame sizes. The transmitter can balance the privacy improvement against the loss of efficiency and delay by controlling the sizes of consolidating frames and when they are transmitted. YANG configuration and operational state models are defined both for the existing functionality of IEEE Std 802.1AE and for the functionality to be added by this project. This amendment describes privacy considerations for the use, design, and deployment of bridged networks. This project includes technical and editorial corrections to existing IEEE Std 802.1AE functionality.

Current Status

Draft	P802.1AEdk, Draft 2.2
Status	Approved standard, awaiting publication
PAR	PAR approved February 14th, 2020.
Editor	Don Fedyk

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