[manet] Re: Draft minutes from Dublin Meeting

[Charlie Perkins <[e-mail]>]

Hello folks,

There was some discussion about AODVv2 shown in the [manet] minutes.  
Here is some follow-up to that discussion.

> Ron: Charlie has presented this when? Was it Brisbane or before?
>
> Donald: I've exchanged email with him. I encouraged him to produce a
> draft. I'm not sure I know all the people in communication paths and
> things involved, because it seemed like having, something upgraded to
> the current drafts formatting standards and things like that would be
> a useful starting place or things to work from. And, yeah, he's
> willing to do more work on the document but is not in a position where
> he can do implementation.

I will be happy to update the draft as needed.  I recently posted a 
slightly updated revision, and notified the mailing list about an 
implementation in ns-3 that is currently in test.

The draft has been reviewed numerous times in the past.  The only 
remaining issue that I am aware of, is that no implementation was 
available.  Otherwise, I think the draft is publishable almost as is.

I hope the ns-3 implementation will be helpful for the expressed need of 
an implementation.  More importantly in my mind, is that fact that AODV 
has been implemented many times and shown to be quite scalable.  In 
fact, AODV has been studied extensively around the world and, as noted, 
even adapted for layer-2, etc.  AODVv2 has kept very closely to the same 
design philosophy.  For this reason I am confident that implementations 
for AODVv2 will share all the benefits shown by AODV.

Section 1.3 and Section 9 of draft-perkins-manet-aodvv2-05 would be of 
particular interest for understanding the differences between AODV and 
AODVv2.  Conformance to RFCs 5444 and 7182 caused a lot of text to be 
changed and added to the document.

Regards,
Charlie P.