On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 05:38 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
I've been thinking a lot about mesh networking, long-distance wireless 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?
FYI, the IETF has a working group - "MANET" - that is standardizing routing protocols for wireless 'ad hoc' networks:
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/manet-charter.html
There's not quite a 1-1 correspondence between mobile ad hoc and wireless (fixed) ad-hoc that CWN's are interested in. A lot of the mobileIP stuff is about how a device can keep the same address as it moves from cell to cell (AP to AP, whatever). There may be (probably are) other built-in assumptions that are different with fixed wireless mesh.
simon
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