An Update On The 802.15 WPAN Committee's Work

Snatch writes: "Recently a committee was created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to develop a new standard called 802.15 Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN), which will use the Bluetooth standard as its foundation. This article discusses the goals and specifications being developed by the 802.15 committee. Once developed, the 802.15 specification will provide a common standard that has broad market applicability, as more wireless devices will interoperate with each other."

Security

[Chmarr]

Looking at the article, I see no mention of security.

One hopes they're going to use a nice public, tried-and-trusted security protocol, or it'll be as worthless as WEP.

Thank ghod for IP-SEC, as broken as it is :)

Recently ???

[dago]

As seen on the WG home page :

"The 802.15 WPAN Working Group was formed on Thursday, March 11, 1999"

I don't think that 2,5 years from now can be considered as recent in IT worl, no ?