On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 01:21 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
I asked for two reasons - one because I was encouraged by an IETFI've been thinking a lot about mesh networking, long-distance wirelessYou will find a number of folks that participate with both orgs.
etc. and I've been encouraged by some people I know to talk to the
IETF. I wonder, what kind of communication has there been so far
between the CWN crowd like BAWUG, etc. and the IETF?
participant to bring some of my ideas about rural wireless to the IETF,Uh, what is it you're expecting out of us in the IETF? Are there some issues you perceive at L3 and above?
Yes, there are ... as I see it the current routing protocols aren't really up to handling the CWN vision. I think most CWN visions (correct me if I'm wrong) involve multihoming by having as many nodes in the CWN connected to the internet as possible. For example a mesh could be "anchored" at multiple points and so traffic will be routed across the mesh ... one has to wonder if this network will be expected to route internet traffic as well, and my feeling is that ideally, it would do that, mainly because of the simplicity that would introduce at a high level of abstraction, in terms of distributing the responsibility for the traffic, routing etc., across the community.
simon
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