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(Main)Telecommunications and exchange between information technology systems — Requirements for local and metropolitan area networks — Part 1X: Port-based network access control
Telecommunications and exchange between information technology systems — Requirements for local and metropolitan area networks — Part 1X: Port-based network access control
Télécommunications et échange entre systèmes informatiques — Exigences pour les réseaux locaux et métropolitains — Partie 1X: Contrôle d'accès au réseau basé sur le port
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8802-1X
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6
Telecommunications and exchange
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Voting begins on:
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metropolitan area networks —
Voting terminates on:
2021-11-17
Part 1X:
Port-based network access control
Télécommunications et échange entre systèmes informatiques —
Exigences pour les réseaux locaux et métropolitains —
Partie 1X: Contrôle d'accès au réseau basé sur le port
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IEEE Std 802.1X™-2020
(Revision of IEEE Std 802.1X™-2010
Incorporating IEEE Std 802.1Xbx™-2014
and IEEE Std 802.1Xck™-2018)
IEEE Standard for
Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—
Port-Based Network Access Control
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Abstract: Port-based network access control allows a network administrator to restrict the use of
®
IEEE 802 LAN service access points (ports) to secure communication between authenticated and
authorized devices. This standard specifies a common architecture, functional elements, and
protocols that support mutual authentication between the clients of ports attached to the same LAN
and that secure communication between the ports, including the media access method
independent protocols that are used to discover and establish the security associations used by
™
IEEE 802.1AE MAC Security.
Keywords: access control, authentication, authorization, controlled port, EAP, EAPOL, IEEE
802.1X, key agreement, LANs, local area networks, MACsec, MACsec Key Agreeement, MAC
security, MAC Service, MANs, metropolitan area networks, MKA, port-based network access
control, secure association, security, service access point, uncontrolled port
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IEEE Std 802.1X-2020
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ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-1X:2021(E)
IEEE Std 802.1X-2020
IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Port-Based Network Access Control
Participants
At the time this standard was submitted to the IEEE SA Standards Board for approval, the IEEE 802.1
working group had the following membership:
Glenn Parsons, Chair
John Messenger, Vice Chair
Mick Seaman, Security Task Group Chair, Editor
Astrit Ademaj Satoko Itaya Karen Randall
Ralf Assmann Yoshihiro Ito Maximilian Riegel
Jens Bierschenk Michael Karl Jessy V. Rouyer
Stephan Kehrer
Christian Boiger Atsushi Sato
Paul Bottorff Randy Kelsey Frank Schewe
Radhakrishna Canchi Hajime Koto Maik Seewald
Feng Chen James Lawlis Johannes Specht
Weiying Cheng Christophe Mangin Marius Stanica
Paul Congdon Scott Mansfield Guenter Steindl
Rodney Cummings Kenichi Maruhashi Karim Traore
Josef Dorr David McCall
Hao Wang
Hesham Elbakoury Larry McMillan Xinyuan Wang
Thomas Enzinger Tero Mustala Tongtong Wang
Roy Myers
János Farkas Ludwig Winkel
Donald Fedyk Hiroki Nakano Karl Weber
Norman Finn Bob Noseworthy Brian Weis
Geoffrey Garner Tomoki Ohsawa Jordon Woods
Craig Gunther Hiroshi Ohue Nader Zein
Marina Gutierrez Donald R. Pannell Takahiro Yamaura
Stephen Haddock Michael Potts Helge Zinner
Mark Hantel Dieter Proell William Zhao
Marc Holness Wei Qiu Harald Zweck
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IEEE Std 802.1X-2020
IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Port-Based Network Access Control
The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this standard. Balloters may have
voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.
SangKwon Jeong
Thomas Alexander Arumugam Paventhan
Johann Amsenga Pranav Jha David Piehler
Butch Anton Lokesh Kabra Walter Pienciak
Harry Bims Srinivas Kandala Clinton Powell
Kenneth Bow Piotr Karocki Karen Randall
R. K. Rannow
Rich Boyer Stuart Kerry
Evgeny Khorov Maximilian Riegel
Nancy Bravin
Vern Brethour Yongbum Kim Robert Robinson
Jessy Rouyer
Matthew Brown Hyeong Ho Lee
John Sargent
Demetrio Bucaneg, Jr. Suzanne Leicht
Frank Schewe
William Byrd James Lepp
Michael Seaman
Radhakrishna Canchi Michael Lynch
Thomas Starai
Paul Cardinal John Mackay
Walter Struppler
Juan Carreon Jouni Malinen
Michael Thompson
Janos Farkas Roger Marks
Mark-Rene Uchida
Avraham Freedman Arthur Marris
Alexander Umnov
Devon Gayle Stephen McCann
Dmitri Varsanofiev
Tim Godfrey
Brett Mcclellan
George Vlantis
Zhigang Gong Richard Mellitz
Lisa Ward
Randall Groves Michael Montemurro
Stephen Webb
Marek Hajduczenia Nick S.A. Nikjoo
Brian Weis
Marco Hernandez Satoshi Obara
Scott Willy
Werner Hoelzl Robert O’Hara
Chun Yu Charles Wong
Yasuhiro Hyakutake
Carlos Pardo
Oren Yuen
Raj Jain Bansi Patel
When the IEEE SA Standards Board approved this standard on 30 January 2020, it had the following
membership:
Gary Hoffman, Chair
Vacant, Vice-Chair
Jean-Philippe Faure, Past Chair
Konstantinos Karachalios, Secretary
Ted Burse Joseph L.Koepfinger* Jon Rosdahl
Dorothy Stanley
Doug Edwards Howard Li
Mehmet Ulema
Travis Griffith Dong Liu
Lei Wang
Grace Gu
Kevin Lu
Sha Wei
Guido Hiertz Paul Nikolich
Philip Winston
John Kulick Damir Novosel
Daidi Zhong
David J. Law
*Member Emeritus
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ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-1X:2021(E)
IEEE Std 802.1X-2020
IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Port-Based Network Access Control
Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 802.1X™-2020, IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area
Networks—Port-Based Network Access Control.
This edition of IEEE Std 802.1X™ incorporates IEEE Std 802.1X-2010 and its amendments, IEEE Std
802.1Xbx-2014 and IEEE Std 802.1Xck-2018.
TM
The first edition of IEEE Std 802.1X was published in 2001. The second edition, IEEE Std 802.1X-2004,
clarified mutual authentication and the interface between the IEEE 802.1X state machines and the
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) and by IEEE Std 802.11™ in support of IEEE Std 802.1X.
The third edition, IEEE Std 802.1X-2010, added authenticated key agreement in support of
IEEE Std 802.1AE™ MAC Security (MACsec) and clarified and generalized the relationship between the
common architecture specified for port-based network access control and the functional elements and
protocols that support that architecture as specified in IEEE Std 802.1X, other IEEE 802® standards, and
IETF RFCs. Further changes updated the standard to reflect best current practice, insisting, for example, on
mutual authentication methods and using such methods in examples. A greater emphasis was placed on the
security of systems accessing the network, as well as on the security of the network accessed, with a more
comprehensive treatment of segregating and limiting connectivity to unauthenticated systems. Applications
of port-based network access that use MACsec and/or MACsec Key Agreement protocol (MKA) were
described.
IEEE Std 802.1X-2010 included a number of improvements to the specification of the port access control
protocol (PACP) state machines and their relationship to EAP methods and state machines. Systems
conformant to IEEE Std 802.1X-2020 or IEEE Std 802.1X-2010 should interoperate, without prior
configuration, with implementations conforming to IEEE Std 802.1X-2004 and IEEE Std 802.1X-2001.
However, it is anticipated that claims of conformance with respect to some existing implementations, not
needing to support IEEE Std 802.1AE and already conforming to best current practice as of 2010, will
continue to refer to IEEE Std 802.1X-2004.
The first amendment to IEEE Std 802.1X-2010, IEEE Std 802.1Xbx-2014, extended MKA to further
support and use the extended packet numbering Cipher Suites specified by the IEEE Std
802.1AEbw™-2013. Secure connectivity association (CA) members can temporarily suspend MKA
operation without causing protocol timeouts that would disrupt secure data transfer, thus allowing in-service
control plane software upgrades.
The second amendment to IEEE Std 802.1X-2010, IEEE Std 802.1Xck-2018, specified a YANG data model
for configuration and status reporting, using the information model previously specified in this standard.
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ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-1X:2021(E)
IEEE Std 802.1X-2020
IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks—Port-Based Network Access Control
Contents
1. Overview. 16
1.1 Scope. 16
1.2 Purpose. 16
1.3 Introduction. 16
1.4 Provisions of this standard. 17
2. Normative references. 19
3. Definitions . 21
4. Acronyms and abbreviations . 26
5. Conformance. 28
5.1 Requirements terminology.28
5.2 Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement. 28
5.3 Conformant systems and system components . 29
5.4 PAE requirements . 29
5.5 PAE options . 30
5.6 Supplicant requirements . 30
5.7 Supplicant options. 30
5.8 Authenticator requirements. 30
5.9 Authenticator options. 30
5.10 MKA requirements . 31
5.11 MKA options . 31
5.12 Virtual port requirements. 32
5.13 Virtual port options. 33
5.14 Announcement transmission requirements. 33
5.15 Announcement transmission options . 33
5.16 Announcement reception requirements . 33
5.17 Announcement reception options . 33
5.18 Requirements for SNMP access to the PAE MIB . 34
5.19 Options for SNMP access to the PAE MIB. 34
5.20 PAC requirements. 34
5.21 System recommendations .
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