Re: [Autoconf] Autoconf addressing model

"Dearlove, Christopher (UK)" <chris.dearlove@baesystems.com> Thu, 05 March 2009 12:10 UTC

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From: "Dearlove, Christopher (UK)" <chris.dearlove@baesystems.com>
To: Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com>, Teco Boot <teco@inf-net.nl>
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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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