HI David, many thanks for the positive and constructive feedback during the session and on the mailing list.
I agree with your view of how mobile communication systems evolved in the past and have several directions in mind what and how it could be improved. The point we wanted to make with this presentation and discussion is that for an evolution of how mobile communication ecosystems can/will be used, the end-to-end view is required. And todays mobile communication systems dont have all end-to-end aspects in scope. The intention is to develop a view how IETF technology can complement any mobile communication system here with well-defined interfaces for control, data plane and maybe even management. The latter may also be useful if we consider steering traffic across a single administrative domain. The good thing is that it does not conflict with any internals of a standardized mobile communication system, whether it is based on any of the known SDOs or a WiFi enterprise network or... A fundamental starting point is to come up with a good set of use cases that benefit from the level of traffic steering we suggest. These should include any more advanced scenarios, e.g. HAPs made out of non-terrestrial networked components, such as LEO satellites, drones, whatever. Having a non-stationary or not-always-present network where nodes may move or disappear from the sky for movement, energy, or failure reasons, we may want to mitigate such impact to existing data sessions. A HAP may for example have a mobility anchor on-board to access a platform and its services. Steering of sessions traffic between such nodes is required in case of topological changes, not because of end-device mobility but mobility of network nodes and service platforms. This is just one example taken out of the sky .. ;-) The same requirement may apply to more traditional systems and use cases, as we brought during the DMM session. We think this could be a starting point, also to argue why some level of continuity on L3 may be useful. Then look at the different aspects of connecting and inter-working with any mobile communication system as sketched on the last slide of my presentation deck. Looking forward to jointly moving this ahead. marco From: dmm <dmm-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of David Lake Sent: Montag, 27. März 2023 03:29 To: dmm@ietf.org Subject: [DMM] Comments on "Mobile traffic steering" Hi Marco Thank you for the very interesting presentation. There has been some parallel discussion on this in the 6gip mailing list and I think there is good work to do here. My concern is that the current mobility solution in 3GPP is essentially inherited from GPRS and is more about L2 tunnels that true IP connectivity. Many user applications are able to work across current network irrespective of the underlying bit pipe I am currently able to watch videos, make WhatsApp and iMessage calls on my end device no matter which network I am connected to whether local cellular or IETF WiFI. By contrast, if I want to use the native dialer on my iPhone when roaming (which is normally VoLTE when at home on Vodafone UK), I am not able despite Vodafone UK operating an ePDG for VoWiFi. Instead, they actively look to see if I have roamed out of country and then ONLY allow me to a local carrier and expensive roaming for SMS and voice. If I were to be in the US, then with 2G/3G sunset, I would not be able to make any calls or SMS on the native iPhone app but OTT applications would work perfectly My point is whether we, as IETF, need to concern ourselves at all with the internal workings of the 3GPP networks because OTT applications seem to work irrespective of what network provider they are connected to. It is only when I try and use the operators own services that I seem to run into trouble! I think there would be value in being able to tie the quality of outcome in service (e.g. QCI, 5QI) of my OTT application if I am using an LTE/5GNR bearer for example, in the same way that VoLTE media is steered to a dedicated bearer, why cant WhatsApp or Facetime media ALSO be steered to a dedicated bearer? Very happy to work on this! David Lake Tel: +44 (0)7711 736784 5G & 6G Innovation Centres Institute for Communication Systems (ICS) University of Surrey Guildford GU2 7XH
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