Hi Joe,

PILC is a great ref that should be cited indeed. Another relevant ref is
RFC 5889. One of the recommendations that RFC boils down to:  *do not* use
on-link prefixes *at all* on interfaces to multi-hop wireless networks --
the subject of the draft we discuss now.

The reason is: there is no planned structure at link-layer and you cannot
guarantee anything in terms of connectivity over such wireless interfaces
-- which does not however mean that these interfaces are useless!

In short: this is not yet another simple case of NBMA. Ergo the need for
this draft.

Best,

Emmanuel

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote:

> FYI, there's an RFC explaining all this already: 3819
>
> Joe
>
> On 1/16/2015 12:04 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> > +1
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Int-area [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian E
> Carpenter
> >> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 11:16 AM
> >> To: Alexandru Petrescu; [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: [Int-area] About
> draft-baccelli-manet-multihop-communication-04
> >>
> >> Alex,
> >>
> >>> but to improve the layers below IP such as to have IP run unmodified.
> >>
> >> In the general case that is impossible, because the SDO that develops
> >> the lower layer isn't interested. If the lower layer is intrinsically
> >> NBMA then for sure ARP or ND+DAD will not work as designed. If the lower
> >> layer doesn't support a physical MTU of at least 1280 IPv6 will not work
> >> as designed. So in the general case both an adaptation layer and an
> >> NBMA solution are required. And as you know, there are other "Ethernet"
> >> assumptions that don't apply in a low-power wireless scenario.
> >>
> >> Of course the goal is "IP over Everything" but that isn't the same as
> >> "Everything must be like Ethernet", which you seem to imply.
> >>
> >> In fact when you read draft-baccelli-manet-multihop-communication
> >> (and imagine what its security section will say when it's been
> >> written), I think the conclusion is that a great many things have
> >> to change, not in the IP packet format, but in the ecosystem
> >> currently provided by ARP/DHCP or RA/ND/DAD/SLAAC/DHCPv6.
> >>
> >>   Brian
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