1. An enhanced wireless device for selective operation in a group of wireless devices, the enhanced wireless device comprising: a wireless access mechanism; storage for holding data and code, the data including state information for the enhanced wireless device, the state information including mutually exclusive exchanged and non-exchanged authentication states with respect to at least one other wireless device of the group, the code including routines to implement a wireless access communications protocol stack, selectively update the state information, and support dynamic selection between at. least a first function and a second function; a processor for selectively executing the routines, the processor coupled to the wireless access mechanism and the storage; and wherein the first function is selected when the exchanged authentication state becomes true and the second function is selected when the non-exchanged authentication state becomes true.