[ieee-ietf-coord] RFC8691 and 802.11bd

[Alexandre Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Hi, participants to the IEEE-IETF coordination,

RFC8691 "IPv6 over OCB" is produced by the IPWAVE WG of IETF.  It 
describes the layering of the IPv6 network protocol on top of the 802.11 
MAC in OCB mode.  This mode is the preferred mode of operation for 
automobile networks that involve 802.11.  This OCB mode is also known as 
802.11p, and will be used in the future 802.11bd to be released by IEEE 
in 2022.

I would like to say that it will be a great idea if the 802.11bd 
document cited RFC8691 whenever the former said 'IPv6'.  It would be a 
perfect match.

How to achieve that goal?

I think there might be a few hurdles in achieving it:

- I do not have regular access to the 802.11bd ongoing developments, and 
the latest documents.  I am not a member of the IEEE respective group.

- some IEEE people often think that _if_ there is a network layer in 
automobile networks, then that would first be the IEEE's networking 
layer for it, which is IEEE 1609.3, and 'WSMP', which is a different 
thing than the IP networking layer.  It might be that IEEE gives 
preference to that networking layer instead of IP.

 From an architecture point of view, I think there is no comparison to 
be made between those two networking layers.  The IP networking layer 
clearly has several advantages, scuh as its addressability capacity and 
the forwarding of datagrams for scalability.

 From an implementation point of view, I did see many implementations of 
this IPv6-over-OCB (802.11p) running in many automobile networks. An 
implementation of IPv6-over-OCB of 802.11bd is only around the corner, 
not posing any significant challenge in realization.

Maybe these worries are not really founded, and maybe it is extremely 
easy to cite RFC8691 in 802.11bd.  But how to do it?

Alex