Hi Jari,

On Tuesday 08 August 2006 23:54, Jari Arkko wrote:
> Vidya, James,
>
> This gets me back to where Julien started this thread --- whether
> it makes sense to have a link local scope larger than the per node
> global prefix scope.
>
> We have talked about whether that breaks the addressing
> model or not. (There may also be other technical issues to
> discuss. What happens to link local communications
> when you move, for instance?)
>
> But we should also talk about what the need is. One of the
> potential targets for the NETLMM work is specific cellular
> networks. If these networks employ p2p links, per node
> prefixes, and generally do not use shared media services,
> the question is if the WG wants to spend time designing
> something that goes beyond this. Keep it simple unless
> you have a reason not to.

So far the discussion on the list hasn't revealed a reason that would 
prevent (or increase the cost of) designing/running NetLMM on shared 
media. My personal opinion is that if we can do it then let's do it, 
it would be good to be link-layer agnostic, as called in the REQ 
draft. FWIW I remember that at least Pekka Savola asked that we keep 
WLAN in our scope. He proposed some text changes to the PS draft:

> 3.1 Large Campus
>   
>      One  scenario where localized mobility management would be
>      attractive is a large campus wireless LAN deployment.  Having a
>      single broadcast domain for all WLAN access points doesn't
>      scale very well.  Also, sometimes parts of the campus cannot be
>      covered by one VLAN for other reasons (e.g., some links are
>      other than 802.3).
>   
> [...]

Best,

--julien

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