Managed object to provision a device according to one of plural provisioning techniques

1. A method comprising:

sending, by a wireless device to a configurator device, information indicating a Wi-Fi technology that the wireless device supports;

receiving, by the wireless device from the configurator device that has a wireless interface, a managed object comprising a Wi-Fi technology field included in the managed object by the configurator device, the Wi-Fi technology field set to a value of different values to indicate the Wi-Fi technology that is to be provisioned, the different values selected from a group consisting of a value for a Device Provisioning Protocol (DPP) technology, and a value for a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) technology, wherein the managed object is wirelessly received over an authenticated link between the configurator device and the wireless device; and

performing, by the wireless device, provisioning of the wireless device according to the value of the Wi-Fi technology field indicated by the managed object.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a collection of one or more information elements populated in the managed object by the configurator device depends upon a determination by the configurator device of which of different Wi-Fi technologies to use for provisioning the wireless device, where different collections of information elements correspond to the different Wi-Fi technologies.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the different collections of information elements comprise a first collection of one or more information elements for Hotspot 2.0 provisioning, and a second collection of one or more information elements for DPP provisioning.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the Wi-Fi technology indicated by the managed object causes provisioning of the wireless device in a transparent manner to a fixed network provisioning infrastructure.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning performed by the wireless device provisions the wireless device as a DPP enrollee.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the provisioning performed by the wireless device provisions the wireless device as a DPP configurator, and the managed object includes information relating to a configurator policy.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the managed object is to cause provisioning of the wireless device as one of an enrollee, a configurator, a P2P client, a P2P services client, an NAN device, and an access point (AP) with wireless links with one or more APs.

8. A configurator device comprising:

a wireless interface to communicate wirelessly with a wireless device; and

at least one hardware processor configured to:

receive information from the wireless device, wherein the received information indicates a Wi-Fi technology that the wireless device supports;

in response to the received information, include, in a managed object, a Wi-Fi technology field set to a value of different values to indicate the Wi-Fi technology that is to be provisioned, the different values selected from a group consisting of a value for a Device Provisioning Protocol (DPP) technology, and a value for a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) technology; and

cause sending of the managed object to the wireless device to cause the wireless device to perform provisioning according to the value of the Wi-Fi technology field indicated by the managed object.

9. The configurator device of claim 8 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is configured to exclude the Wi-Fi technology field from the managed object in response to the received information indicating that the Wi-Fi technology is a Hotspot 2.0 technology.

10. The configurator device of claim 8 , wherein the managed object is to cause provisioning of the wireless device as one of an enrollee, a configurator, a P2P client, a P2P services client, an NAN device, and an access point (AP) with wireless links with one or more APs.

11. The configurator device of claim 8 , wherein the managed object includes a further information element to specify a role of the wireless device, the role selected from among a DPP role, an infrastructure role, a P2P role, an NAN role, and a role of an access point (AP) with wireless links with one or more APs.

12. The configurator device of claim 8 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is configured to include, in the managed object, an information element relating to authentication and key management.

13. The configurator device of claim 8 , wherein the at least one hardware processor is configured to include, in the managed object, a further information element including information identifying enrollee devices that have been previously provisioned, the further information element to pass, to the wireless device being provisioned as a configurator, the information identifying the enrollee devices.

14. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that upon execution cause a configurator device to:

receive information from a wireless device, wherein the received information Indicates a Wi-Fi technology that the wireless device supports;

in response to the received information, include, in a managed object, a Wi-Fi technology field set to a value of different values to indicate the Wi-Fi technology that is to be provisioned, the different values selected from a group consisting of a value for a Device Provisioning Protocol (DPP) technology, and a value for a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) technology; and

cause sending of the managed object to the wireless device to cause the wireless device to perform provisioning according to the value of the Wi-Fi technology field indicated by the managed object.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the wireless device is to be provisioned as a configurator based on the managed object, and wherein the managed object further includes information identifying enrollee devices provisioned by the configurator device.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the managed object is to cause provisioning of the wireless device as one of an enrollee, a configurator, a P2P client, a P2P services client, an NAN device, and an access point (AP) with wireless links with one or more APs.