folks, I am not going to stay in what is ad-hoc network. This is not well defined it means different things to different users and different vendors. But I leave this discussion with my base view.
- Can be more than one link - Network did not exist previously or was not known to other networks - Routing may converge (manet) or be commanded by higher authority (don't need manet or anything like it in the second case) /jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 3:51 PM > To: Charlie Perkins > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Some IPv6LL operational experience > > > > Something is wrong with the way you seem to be using the > term "ad hoc" > > network. It doesn't have to be a single link. There are lots of > > reasons to have a multihop/multi-technology ad hoc network. > > I agree entirely that it's not desirable to expect ad hoc > networks to be a single link. However, the proposals for ad > hoc networks I've seen tend to use ambiguous, and often > link-local, addressing. > > The zeroconf group attempted to justify v4LL addressing by > saying it was for ad hoc networks; now we see people trying > to justify application use of v6LL in ad hoc networks. Both > are highly dysfunctional (v6LL is not quite as bad as v4LL, > but still not generally usable). > > > >There's nothing wrong with using the packet format on an ad hoc > > >network, the problem is it's the expectation that apps > have that IP > > >equates to Internet access. > > > > > I thought apps were supposed to care about end-to-end data exchange, > > regardless of whether the data is exchanged over one or many links. > > Apps care about more things than end-to-end data integrity. > Some apps care about having consistent view of addressing > across all locations in the network. Some apps also care > about having consistent naming across all locations in the > network. IMHO IP-based ad hoc networks need to provide both > of these in order to be viable. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
