scope:

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

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

This 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.