> At least these "cellular host categories" can be imagined: > > 1) "Closed system" basic 2.5G / 3G terminal typically with fixed > applications and software. Examples of such devices could be Nokia > 8310, Ericsson T65, Motorola Timeport 280, ... Usually these > terminals have a very compact size and optimized functionality.
> 2) "Open system" 2.5G / 3G terminal. External developers can develop > software and applications for such terminals. Examples of such > devices could be Ericsson R380, Nokia Communicator 9210/9290, PDAs > such as Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC (having e.g. GPRS functionality), ... > 3) a "full laptop" with e.g. GPRS/WLAN (PCMCIA) card. These typically > are very powerful devices compared to two first categories. An > example of WLAN/GPRS card can be found here: > http://www.nokia.com/phones/nokiad211/ these sound like useful categories. however, for categories #1 and #2 there would need to be different requirements depending on whether or not the device had an external interface to which one or more other IPv6 hosts could be attached. as for category #3, I'd focus on defining the requirements of the network interface that is seen by the laptop, rather than the requirements of the laptop itself. presumably the laptop is a normal IPv6 host and doesn't have unusual requirements. Keith -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
