Re: [Autoconf] new charter

Stan,

The difference is not geo footprint (you got that right).  Rather the 
difference is between LAN (at fringe of network) and WAN (in the 
interior).  A WAN will always be at least one router away from end 
systems. 

While we're at it, references to SSIDs is not proper -- that's 
802.11-specific. 

Stan Ratliff (sratliff) wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alexandru Petrescu [mailto:alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com] 
>> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:31 PM
>> To: Stan Ratliff (sratliff)
>> Cc: Alexandru Petrescu; Teco Boot; autoconf@ietf.org
>> Subject: Re: [Autoconf] new charter
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>> Stan Ratliff (sratliff) a écrit :
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>>>> Well I agree the physical laws are so.  But I disagree to 
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>> have 25km  
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>>>> MANETs in the Charter.  I agree with "25m IPv6 subnets", 
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>>>> explicitely stated so in the charter.
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>>>> Alex
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>>> 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. 
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>> Commercial 802.11,  
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>>> 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.
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>> I wouldn't disagree with a Charter mentioning we deal with 
>> 25m IPv6 subnets and with 30.000km IPv6 subnets, and here are 
>> the two practical methods to put addresses on these nodes.
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>> But I would disagree with a Charter saying we deal with all 
>> wireless links ranging from personal area to sattellite and 
>> everything in between
>>   and the generic addressing model is the following...
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>> Alex
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> Hmmm, that's a problem. Because I don't see a difference in a 3m subnet using Bluetooth, and a 35,000km "subnet" using a satellite with IP routing on board. I think the charter needs to solve the problem for both of those, because I believe the distance of the link shouldn't be a factor. 
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> Stan
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