Re: [ipwave] Intdir early review of draft-ietf-ipwave-ipv6-over-80211ocb-34

["Sri Gundavelli (sgundave)" <[e-mail]>]

I understand your point Brian, but IMO there are enough reasons not to
delay this work.

There are many use-cases/applications where there is a stable topology of
RSU¹s and OBU¹s. The regulations around 5.9 Ghz (DSRC) band allows the
channel use for non-priority/non-traffic safety related applications. For
example, a vehicle in a gas station can receive a coupon from the
802.11-OCB radio (AP/RSU) in the gas station. There, its a stable topology
that classic ND is designed for. In this operating mode, its perfectly
reasonable to use classic ND and it works. The authors have shown enough
lab data on the same.

Ideally, I agree with you that it makes lot more sense to publish both the
specs at the same time. But, for what ever reasons the WG went on this
path. Authors have spent incredible amount of efforts in getting the draft
this far and we cannot ignore that. You can see the efforts from the
version number; when did we last see a draft version -037?

We also need to distill the recent ND discussions and filter out the
threads that are clearly motivated to insert a ND protocol that is
designed for a totally different operating environment. An argument that a
protocol designed for low-power environments is the solution for vehicular
environments requires some serious vetting. Looking at the
characteristics, always-sleeping, occasional internet connectivity,
low-power, no memory, no processing power, no mobility ..etc, meeting
vehicular requirements is some thing most people in the WG do not get it.

Bottom line, IMO, we should move this forward and publish the document.
All we need is a simple statement in the spec which puts some scope
limits, w.r.t the missing ND pieces and issues. There are other proposals
in the WG that will address the gaps and bring closure to the work.

Sri








 

On 4/12/19, 1:28 PM, "Brian E Carpenter" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>On 13-Apr-19 02:59, Sri Gundavelli (sgundave) wrote:
>>If you go back and check 2017 archives, I did raise many of these
>>issues.  But, we clearly decided to limit the scope excluding address
>>configuration, DAD, ND aspect, link models. When there is such a scope
>>statement, it should clearly move these comments to the draft that
>>defines how ND works for 802.11-OCB links.
>
>This is of course possible. In general the IETF hasn't done that, but has
>followed the lead set by RFC 2464 with the complete specification of
>IPv6-over-foo in one document.
>
>However, I don't believe that publishing an RFC about the frame format
>without *simultaneously* publishing an RFC about ND etc would be a good
>idea. That would leave developers absolutely unable to write useful
>code, and might easily lead to incompatible implementations. Since
>we'd presumably like Fords to be able to communicate with Peugeots,
>that seems like a bad idea.
>
>Regards
>   Brian