Hi Charlie, > -----Original Message----- > From: Int-area [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charlie Perkins > Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 1:52 PM > To: Joe Touch; Dearlove, Christopher (UK) > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Int-area] About draft-baccelli-manet-multihop-communication-04 > > > Hello Joe, > > Follow-up below: > > On 1/26/2015 10:31 AM, Joe Touch wrote: > > > > The whole story for IP (L3) is: > > ..... > > > > (C) - Those subnets can be internetworked using L3 (routers) > > ONLY where they overlap (i.e., share a node). > > This isn't true for routers that route over links that are not > part of a subnet.
I think what you have is a (possibly) dynamically changing collection of links that are stitched together by routers, right? I use the term "subnetwork" to describe that (which is intentionally distinct from "subnet"), since subnetwork does not imply a multilink subnet. Thanks - Fred [email protected] > ...................... > > > So far, "your" experience (you, the authors, the MANET community) > > keeps asserting that there's something magic about that environment > > that the Internet architecture and protocols haven't considered. > > It's not magic. That's the point. And we don't say that the problems > have never been considered. From earlier email: > > > ... We are simply trying to point out > > that the effects do matter, and are worthy of consideration when > > designing IP protocols. > > Also from earlier email: > > >> > >> If you have a problem that isn't described above, it is you who need > >> to describe it. The burden of proof is on you to explain what's new. > > > > What's new is collecting together these important matters > > into a document that can be helpful. The lack of such a document > > motivated the writing of the draft under discussion. Our indication > > that it was needed came from experience in other working groups. > > > Regards, > Charlie P. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Int-area mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
