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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Acee Lindem > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 3:22 PM > To: OSPF List > Subject: [OSPF] Single Hop MANET versus Broadcast/P2MP Hybrid Interface > > Speaking as WG Co-Chair, > > As many of you remember, we spent a lot of WG time 2004-2007 discussing > various OSPF MANET solutions. We were unable to converge on a single > solution and ended up with 3 experimental RFCs. It was thought that > possibly one day a clear winner would emerge and become a standard. > While this may still happen in the future, I don't believe we are there > yet and do not feel it would be beneficial to renew the debate. > > In Beijing, the hybrid broadcast/P2MP interface was proposed with a > radio networks being one of the target environment. This collision with > the former work on OSPF MANET elicited much discussion. In Prague, the > chairs, authors, and some other interested parties met to specifically > address this collision. What we agreed was that the existing OSPF MANET > RFCs were the agreed upon solution(s) for MANET environments. The OSPF > hybrid interface could still be valuable as a simple adjacency > reduction technique on links where broadcast capability was available > but not all the links had the same costs. We also agreed that the OSPF > MANET mechanisms (with some simplifications) could also handle the > single hop case. > > Hence, the questions for the WG are: > > > 1. Do we want to accept draft-nsheth-ospf-hybrid-bcast-and-p2mp- > 01.txt as a WG document? > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nsheth-ospf-hybrid-bcast-and- > p2mp > > 2. Do we wish to allow revisions of the OSPF MANET experimental RFCs > to cover the single-hop case (and possibly minor corrections)? > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5449/ > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5614/ > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5820/ > > Note that IPR statements are filed for some of the above. > > Thanks, > Acee > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSPF mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ospf _______________________________________________ OSPF mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ospf
