Yes to (1) and no opinion on (2) Alia
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Acee Lindem <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
