The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Mobile IP Vendor/Organization-Specific Extensions' <draft-ietf-mobileip-vendor-ext-11.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the IP Routing for Wireless/Mobile Hosts Working Group. The IESG contact persons are David Oran and Rob Coltun. Technical Summary The vendor/organization specific extension I-D specifies two new extensions to the Mobile IP protocol (RFC2002). The current specification of Mobile IP [1] does not allow for organizations and vendors to include organization/vendor-specific information in the Mobile IP messages. The two new extensions proposed in the I-D (Critical and Non-Critical Vendor Specific Extensions) add this capability to Mobile IP. Vendors who are implementing Mobile IP in their products require the capability of sending vendor specific information in Mobile IP messages. These extensions are a way of enabling them to do so. Working Group Summary No significant or for that matter any dissent was expressed by the WG about this I-D. Most vendors who are implementing or have implementations welcome this capability to Mobile IP. Also the TR45.6 body in the TIA expressed support for this I-D. Protocol Quality The proposal in this I-D is the addition of two new extensions to Mobile IP and not really a protocol by itself. There are currently no known implementations of these extensions. The extensions are intended to be specifically used by vendors for their own needs and hence there is no question about interoperability between implementations. This specification was reviewed for the IESG by Dave Oran
