Re: [Autoconf] Autoconf addressing model

"Joe Macker" <joseph.macker@nrl.navy.mil> Thu, 05 March 2009 16:45 UTC

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From: Joe Macker <joseph.macker@nrl.navy.mil>
To: "'Dearlove, Christopher (UK)'" <chris.dearlove@baesystems.com>, 'Alexandru Petrescu' <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com>, 'Teco Boot' <teco@inf-net.nl>
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Subject: Re: [Autoconf] Autoconf addressing model
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IMHO, many successful manet networks are often partially planned.

Chris RFC 2501 attempts to tip its hat in this direction

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  The technology of Mobile Ad hoc Networking is somewhat synonymous
   with Mobile Packet Radio Networking (a term coined via during early
   military research in the 70's and 80's), Mobile Mesh Networking (a
   term that appeared in an article in The Economist regarding the
   structure of future military networks) and Mobile, Multihop, Wireless
   Networking (perhaps the most accurate term, although a bit
   cumbersome).
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> From: autoconf-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:autoconf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:10 AM
> To: Alexandru Petrescu; Teco Boot
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> Subject: Re: [Autoconf] Autoconf addressing model
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> > Along these lines, an interpretation of 'ad-hoc' is a happening which
> > hasn't been planned, spontaneous, etc.
> 
> That is the dictionary definition of ad hoc. But "ad hoc network"
> has become a term of art, whose fundamentals are about decentralised,
> cooperative, multi-hop routing. (I'm not sure if RFC 2501 attempts
> a definition, I haven't checked it recently.) "ad hoc" got attached
> to such networks because they often were/are ad hoc in the dictionary
> sense. But often ad hoc networks are not completely unplanned, but
> still retain that label.
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