Re: [Autoconf] new charter

"Joe Macker" <joseph.macker@nrl.navy.mil> Mon, 02 March 2009 16:21 UTC

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From: Joe Macker <joseph.macker@nrl.navy.mil>
To: "'Dearlove, Christopher (UK)'" <chris.dearlove@baesystems.com>, "'Stan Ratliff (sratliff)'" <sratliff@cisco.com>, 'Alexandru Petrescu' <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com>, 'Teco Boot' <teco@inf-net.nl>
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Subject: Re: [Autoconf] new charter
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I would agree with these comments.

- Range seems artificially limiting. Wireless neighbor should suffice.
- Domain may extend into some wired links.

-Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: autoconf-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:autoconf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 9:53 AM
> To: Stan Ratliff (sratliff); Alexandru Petrescu; Teco Boot
> Cc: autoconf@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Autoconf] new charter
> 
> 
> Stan Ratliff
> > And I'll have to disagree with the "25m subnets". I regularly deal
> with
> > line-of-sight radio links that are in excess of 25km. We can't limit
> > ourselves to short-range technologies (e.g. Commercial 802.11,
> > Bluetooth, Zigbee, etc). I don't believe a distance should be
> explicitly
> > stated in the charter, rather, some verbiage that talks about "radio
> > neighbors in range" should be sufficient.
> 
> Agreed. There has to be a good reason to limit consideration of
> what bearers to use, and the default without such a good reason
> (which I am not aware of) is anything that works. Which means
> that actually it doesn't even have to be a radio bearer. If in
> an ad hoc network some links are wired, it may still be convenient
> to treat them as ad hoc links. (And that also is not just keeping
> options open for the sake of doing so.)
> 
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