Re: [Autoconf] aspects of multi-hop wireless communication

Charles E. Perkins wrote:
> 
> Hello Alex,
> 
> Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
>> 
>> Well I'm not looking at brute force solutions, but solutions to 
>> simpler problems.  The advertising you mention - could work without
>>  taking into considerations the asymmetricity/nontransitivity, if
>> we think it's about Router Advertisements.
> 
> This is the crux of the discussion, and what I claim you have to 
> decide about.  Either you want to restrict the effort to only links 
> which are unaffected by asymmetry/nontransitivity, or not.  If you 
> want to make the restriction, and yet the group is chartered to 
> create solutions for networks that do not adhere to the restrictions,
>  then I think it means that you need to charter another group or
> build support for rechartering [autoconf].

Eh, I was looking at it as inserting a little effort into an already
large effort.

Chartering another group or build support for rechartering already
happened while MANEMO and it didn't work.  Nothing worked since anyways, so.

>>> But, on the other hand, if a solution that works for 
>>> 802.{11*,16,...} is created in a way that is cognizant of the 
>>> wireless characteristics as we have described in our Internet 
>>> Draft, then it is _more likely_ to work for the other unspecified
>>>  but presumably similar media.
>>> 
>>> Which is why we wrote it.
>>> 
>>> Do you disagree with this motivation?
>> 
>> No, I don't disagree with that motivation - supposedly if it works 
>> for non-transitive links it will work for transitive links too.  I 
>> just look at it as something which may be too much for simpler 
>> needs.
> 
> This is the same point, reformulated.  You would like to deal only 
> with simpler networks, and seem to claim that is sufficient. Perhaps 
> at the cost of truckloads of repeaters for disaster situations?

:-)

Alex

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