Re: [lp-wan] Fwd: WG Rechartering - new charter approval vote (vote ends Dec 3rd)

[Laurent Toutain <[e-mail]>]

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On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:50 AM Prof. Diego Dujovne <
[e-mail]> wrote:

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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> De: Prof. Diego Dujovne <[e-mail]>
> Date: mar., 19 de noviembre de 2019 08:50
> Subject: Re: [lp-wan] WG Rechartering - new charter approval vote (vote
> ends Dec 3rd)
> To: Alexander Pelov <[e-mail]>
>
>
> Alex,
>         I agree on the new charter.
> Thanks.
> Regards,
>
>                    Diego Dujovne
>
> Le mar. 19 nov. 2019 à 07:05, Alexander Pelov <[e-mail]> a écrit :
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> As we have achieved all our milestones the LPWAN WG is now rechartering..
>> We have been discussing the recharter for several IETFs now, so most of the
>> new charter should be familiar..
>>
>> The new charter is as follows:
>> - The introduction and the context remain unchanged.
>> - Charter item 1 is a generalization of the Charter item 1 we discussed
>> in past IETFs.
>> - Charter items 2 and 4 come directly from our previous charter.
>> - Charter item 3 was proposed, discussed and voted during the session.
>> - Charter item 5 has been discussed during the past several IETFs.
>>
>> We would like to confirm the agreement in the room on the mailing list.
>> Please vote by December 3rd, 23h55 CET.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Pascal and Alexander
>>
>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>
>> *Charter Proposal for LPWAN Working Group*
>> *(Changes are given below in bold)*
>> A new generation of wireless technologies has emerged under the generic
>> name of Low-Power Wide-Area (LPWA), with a number of common
>> characteristics, which make these technologies unique and disruptive for
>> Internet of Things applications.
>> Those common traits include an optimized radio modulation, a star
>> topology, frame sizes in the order of tens of bytes transmitted a few times
>> per day at ultra-low speeds and sometimes variable MTUs, and, though
>> downstream may be supported, a mostly upstream transmission pattern that
>> allows the devices to spend most of their time in low- energy deep-sleep
>> mode.
>> This enables a range of several kilometers and a long battery lifetime,
>> possibly ten years operating on a single coin-cell. This also enables
>> simple and scalable deployments with low-cost devices and thin
>> infrastructures.
>> Those benefits come at a price: the layer 2 frame formats are optimized
>> and specific to each individual technology. There is no network layer and
>> the application is often hard wired to the layer 2 frame format, leading to
>> siloed deployments that must be managed, secured and operated individually.
>> Migrating from one LPWA technology to another implies rebuilding the whole
>> chain.
>> To unleash the full power of LPWA technologies and their ecosystems,
>> there is a need to couple them with other ecosystems that will guarantee
>> the inter-working by introducing a network layer, and enable common
>> components for management and security, as well as shared application
>> profiles. The IETF can contribute by providing IPv6 connectivity, and
>> propose technologies to secure the operations and manage the devices and
>> their gateways.
>> The Working Group will focus on enabling IPv6 connectivity over the
>> following selection of Low-Power Wide-Area technologies: SIGFOX, LoRa,
>> WI-SUN and NB-IOT.
>> These technologies present similar characteristics of rare and widely
>> unbalanced over-the-air transmissions, with little capability to alter the
>> frame formats to accommodate this work, which makes it so that existing
>> IETF work (6lo) cannot be trivially applied.
>> The Working Group will leverage cross-participation with the associated
>> set of stakeholders to ensure that the work taking place corresponds to
>> real demands and that the proposed solutions are indeed applicable.
>> The group will produce informational work describing LPWA technologies
>> and their needs as well as new standard work to optimize IPv6-based
>> communications to the end device
>>
>> The group will:
>> *1. Perform SCHC Maintenance, including enabling SCHC mechanisms for
>> Upper layer Protocols. *
>>
>>
>>
>> *2.. Produce Standard Track documents to apply SCHC IPv6/UDP over the
>> baseline technologies.3. Produce a Standards Track document to provide a
>> mechanism to improve the reliability of delivering fragmented multicast
>> packets.4. Produce a Standards Track document to define the generic data
>> models to  formalize the compression and fragmentation contexts. 5. Produce
>> a Standards Track document to enable  operations, administration and
>> maintenance (OAM) to the LPWAN device, including support for delayed or
>> proxyed liveness verification (Ping).*
>>
>>
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