On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 09:09 -0400, Thomas Narten wrote: > From: Thomas Narten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Margaret Wasserman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralph Droms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Bob Hinden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Bernard Aboba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Zinin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Mark Townsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:51:16 -0400 > Subject: Re: AUTOCONF Chartering Call > >In order to communicate among themselves, ad hoc nodes (refer to RFC > >2501) need to configure their network interface(s) with local > >addresses that are valid within an ad hoc network. > > yes. But this is not enough to communicate. There also needs to be a > model/framework/architecture that defines an "ad hoc subnet": > > - what is the subnet model? I.e., for a collection of links, what > are the boundaries of a "subnet", where each node is part of the > same ad hoc network? > > - how are packets forwarded within a subnet? How is address > resolution done? How does a sender decide whether a destination on > the "subnet" is directly reachable, or is reachable through a > forwarding node? > > - How is multicast traffic distributed within the subnet? > > - in IPv6, how are RAs distributed?
I think Thomas has asked several fundamental questions that need to be answered before work on address assignment can make progress. It seems to me we need to know exactly how and at what layer the specific hardware and operational characteristics of a MANET are accommodated, and which layers of the protocol stack are expected to work unchanged. - Ralph _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
