scope:

This International Standard specifies maintenance of network connectivity and presence by proxies to extend the sleep duration of hosts.

This International Standard specifies:

• capabilities that a proxy may expose to a host;

• information that must be exchanged between a host and a proxy;

• proxy behaviour for 802.3 (Ethernet) and 802.11 (WiFi);

• required and optional behaviour of a proxy while it is operating, including responding to packets, generating packets, ignoring packets, and waking the host.

This International Standard does not:

• specify communication mechanisms between hosts and proxies;

• extend or modify the referenced specifications (and for any discrepancies those specifications are authoritative);

• support security and communication protocols such as IPsec, MACSec, SSL, TLS, Mobile IP, etc.