On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 at 16:43, John Mattsson <john.matts...@ericsson.com>
wrote:


> It is always great with more privacy, but the IMSI Privacy Protection for
> Wi-Fi seems a bit weird to me. Do anybody know the background and reason
> behind the standard? 3GPP standardized a mechanism to encrypt IMSIs already
> in 2018. I have a hard time seeing what the WBA standard adds that is not
> available in the 3GPP mechanism.
>

This might be related to timing. When we were asked about implementing IMSI
privacy done this way on the Radius server side, it was already known that
some Wi-Fi clients were implementing it. In other words, maybe this had
started before the 5G privacy protection method was published.

Thanks,
Heikki

-- 
Heikki Vatiainen
h...@radiatorsoftware.com
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