Banning old standards is not the answer: aggressively promoting new ones to replace the older, ineffective ones is a better way forward. Also, as another poster said, it isn't up to the Alliance, but the IEEE.
Furthermore, what of all the people whose laptops will suddenly be useless?
You mention WPA2-Mixed mode and WPA2-AES, but when I look at my laptop I see the following EAP Types listed under WPA/WPA2: EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, PEAP(EAP-GTC), PEAP(EAP-MSCHAP V2), LEAP, EAP-FAST ! If the Alliance is going to do away with certain encryption types then it should first round up all the types that there are and produce some sort of reference - there's enough alphabet soup here to keep Campbell's going for a week!
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