Hi Homenet chairs & list,
Before we lose this, let it be noted that we seemed to have arrived at "no" for an answer to whether we want to deal with non-transitive networks, *as part of this particular routing protocol discussion*. If I'm misrepresenting the outcome from today's meeting, someone please correct me. (As a nail in the coffin for this: IPv6 isn't even implemented for NBMA networks, which a mesh falls under. Without special ND handling, Hidden nodes will fail DAD, and you can't expect to get a mac address for a node you don't get multicast to. Before anyone reminds me of RFC 2491, please point to an implementation / a wifi mesh that runs MARS.) (The big community meshes usually don't have stupid clients in the ad-hoc cloud. If you're in ad-hoc, you speak the mesh protocol. Stupid clients go to a separate AP/BSS on a mesh router of their choosing.) I *don't* think meshes are out of scope for homenet. I do think meshes need a mesh routing protocol. But pulling this into the current discussion seems to generate nothing but waste heat. As a consequence, when we talk about 802.11, we would be talking about AP / BSS, not ad-hoc / IBSS. No hidden node problem. No intransitive reachability. Massively reduced marginal links (because when you start losing beacons between AP and Client, you'll be deassociated.) Cheers, -David _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
