Folks - This is a new approach, MFA, that we are looking at for solving the user-plane optimization problem. Please review and comment.
Sri On 2/24/18, 9:40 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > >A new version of I-D, draft-gundavelli-dmm-mfa-00.txt >has been successfully submitted by Sri Gundavelli and posted to the >IETF repository. > >Name: draft-gundavelli-dmm-mfa >Revision: 00 >Title: Mobility-aware Floating Anchor (MFA) >Document date: 2018-02-24 >Group: Individual Submission >Pages: 25 >URL: >https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gundavelli-dmm-mfa-00.txt >Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gundavelli-dmm-mfa/ >Htmlized: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gundavelli-dmm-mfa-00 >Htmlized: >https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-gundavelli-dmm-mfa-00 > > >Abstract: > IP mobility protocols are designed to allow a mobile node to remain > reachable while moving around in the network. The currently deployed > mobility management protocols are anchor-based approaches, where a > mobile node's IP sessions are anchored on a central node. The mobile > node's IP traffic enters and exits from this anchor node and it > remains as the control point for all subscriber services. This > architecture based on fixed IP anchors comes with some complexity and > there is some interest from the mobile operators to eliminate the use > of fixed anchors, and other residual elements such as the overlay > tunneling that come with it. > > This document describes a new approach for realizing a mobile user- > plane that does not require fixed IP anchors. The architectural- > basis for this approach is the separation of control and user plane, > and the use of programmability constructs of the user-plane for > traffic steering. This approach is referred to as, Mobility-aware > Floating Anchor (MFA). > > > > > >Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of >submission >until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. > >The IETF Secretariat > _______________________________________________ dmm mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmm
