Re: [Autoconf] draft-clausen-manet-linktype

Dear Thomas,

I think that your document is very useful to deepen understanding 
about what is MANETs.

I have some commnets.
I think that Sec. 4 MANET Interface discusses more than MANET 
interface, that is, MANET link type. This section may present 
essences of the MANET link type.
I almost agree what are written here, but hope that we could a little 
bit clearer the essence of MANET link type. I would propose the 
following remark to be included in the texts.

The set of neighbors of each MANET interface may be position 
(attachment to a link)- and time-dependent.
The nature of position-dependency in MANETs is clearly described in 
Sec. 4. Time-dependency occurs for example due to interference in 
wireless environment. This is different from things discussed in Sec. 
5. Note that , in the Ethernet-like link, the set of neighbors of 
each MANET interface is position- and time-independent in principle.

The word "position" is used in Sec. 5. So, the remark above also 
contributes to improves consistency.

I also would propose that Sec. 6 is entitled "The MANET link Type 
Characteristics". It should be noted in Sec. 6 that  the most of 
characteristics of MANET link type, listed here, occur as the result 
of the nature of MANET link type proposed above.

Thanks,
Kenichi

At 18:51 08/11/04, Thomas Heide Clausen wrote:
>Folks,
>
>As you know, we need to make progress on the architectural issues,
>before we can hope to make progress on other matters within this WG.
>One of the requests that have been made to us has been to "describe
>the MANET Link Type", and so I have written together a strawman text
>to this effect:
>
>         http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-clausen-manet-linktype-00.txt
>
>Feedback is, obviously, welcome -- preferably on the list such that
>we could be prepared spend time on this also in MN.
>
>Note, however, that this is an individual I-D.
>
>I'd also like to draw your collective attention to:
>
>         http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-ip-model-evolution-01.txt
>
>Which has served as a source of inspiration for the linktype text.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Thomas
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