Re: [Autoconf] Closing summary on consensus-call for RFC5889modifications

["Dearlove, Christopher (UK)" <[e-mail]>]

I'm failing to see how any of the examples you quote (which I
agree, would not make a node a router) are sufficient for all 
of the functionality I noted. I really would like (but I'll
be unable to reply to for at least some days - it's a long
weekend coming up) to know how you get the functionality.
Ideally I'd like equivalent functionality to the OLSR example,
what I wouldn't count is where a host node is permanently
(albeit wirelessly) attached to a single other router node.
How far from the latter and close to the former can you get?
(I can see how to get from the one permanent point of
attachment to occasionally changing that, with transients,
using Mobile IP.)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Charles E. Perkins [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: 27 August 2010 04:27
To: Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [Autoconf] Closing summary on consensus-call for
RFC5889modifications


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Hello Chris,

I'm responding again, because I'd like to have a fruitful
discussion.

On 8/26/2010 7:21 AM, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote:

> This started from the specific example, so that is clearly quite
> to the point. You may now be discussing other cases, but that's
> another matter.

Do you mean the specific example of your nodes running
OLSR and identifying MPRs?  I'm happy to agree that your
nodes are routers.

If I discussed other cases, it was only to reach the
goal of identifying the boundary between hostness and
routerness.  Is that sufficiently to the point?


> If by a node we mean a physically separate entity (in a
> wireless network) and if we allow that node to be independently
> mobile and to connect to other nodes (otherwise it's not really
> an ad hoc node) and it is to be unicast reachable from elsewhere
> in the network via one of those other nodes, then it has to be
> running something.

Obviously...  it's running some computer programs.

If a node runs ARP, is it a router?

>             It's for you to indicate what that something
> is and why that isn't a routing protocol, despite having some
> (agreed, not all) routing functions, and how it will work in a
> MANET with wireless links (with the usual non-transitive
> properties).

I already mentioned several examples.  Should I do it
again?  What about a node running ND?  What about a node
snooping the airwaves?  What about a node running Mobile IP?
I've just scratched the surface of examples.  In fact
I'll even play dirty and keep you in suspense to wait for
a new Internet Draft I am co-authoring on this subject.

> Otherwise you are asking me to prove a negative, and we know
> how easy that is.

I'm asking you to accept that a node can beneficially
reside in an ad hoc network without being a router.
What is negative about that?

Unless I completely misunderstand your point of view,
this is not in any way asking you to prove a negative.
Of course it is possible to prove a negative proposition.
But, I have not asked you to do so.  Or, what negative
proposition do you believe I have postulated for your
consideration?  If I put "not" in any point of discussion,
have I exceeded my boundaries of feasible communication?

Regards,
Charlie P.





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