A mailing list has been set up to discuss a new Internet Draft on Mobile Operators Requirements for the wireless Internet. The draft is draft-reynolds-mobile-isp-requirements-00.txt and an abstract is included below. The mailing list is [EMAIL PROTECTED], use the usual majordomo procedure to get on the list (mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). A public archive is available at ftp://ops.ietf.org/pub/lists. The list is intended for discussion of requirements for the wireless Internet, in particular, for wireless ISPs, mobile operators and others who are the ultimate customers of protocols developed by the IETF, to express their views on what they need. If there is enough interest and discussion, we would like to hold a BOF at IETF 51, with the goal of defining a short term activity to refine the draft into an Informational RFC that can act as guidance to groups in IETF dealing with wireless Internet issues. The draft can be found at http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-reynolds-mobile-isp-requirements-00.tx t. jak -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The growth in mobile terminal access to the Internet has been one of the greatest growth areas in the past year. Indeed the so-called 3rd generation mobile networks being designed are premised upon Internet services and protocols. Both mobility and wireless access bring with them unique requirements that needs to be addressed within the Internet community such as address space and limited access bandwidth. This document is a synthesis of a yearlong study of mobile operators and mobile ISPs to crystallise these unique requirements. These are provided for guidance and are not intended to be prescriptive on the current Internet Architectural Framework.
