Jari, I will be working on a summary document that pulls together the technical items we witnessed at the meeting.
--Brett On Wednesday 19 November 2003 08:15, Jari Arkko wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if anyone has documented the situation of the IETF wireless > network and analyzed the experienced difficulties? I'd be interested > in looking at the causes of the difficulties. There's a lot of anecdotal > information about the capabilities of the protocols and advice on what > to do on this list. But it would be good to know what was the real cause > of difficulties. Say, its pretty useless to authenticate beacons if > the radios are simply swamped by too many nodes who think they are > access points. Similarly, access control a la 802.1X does not help > if the interferences are caused during or before access authentication > has taken place. Or a correctly operating radio network is no good if > all of its capacity is used by the legitimate, but infected, hosts > for something non-productive. The bottom line is that finger pointing > (staff, ieee, fcc, ourselves...), if useful at all, should come after we > find out what happened. > > I suspect the IETF network is pretty the worst case scenario for > current wireless LANs (or can someone point an even more demanding > case?). But what we do today will be done tomorrow by regular users... > > --Jari
