Re: [manet] Discussion of WG charter draft

[Abdussalam Baryun <[e-mail]>]

update to my points with Ronald's as from meeting:

 - The MANET WG is responsible for the maintenance of OLSRv2 [RFC 7181],
NHDP [RFC 6130] and the Generalized MANET Packet/Message Format [RFC5444],
and their extensions – Keep, obvious. Potential topics:

 ○ Guidance on use of (lesser known) OLSRv2 features to accommodate
specific use cases (informational document)
 ○ Hybrid proactive / reactive operation based on an OLSRv2 extension
 ○ Hybrid proactive / DTN operation based an OLSRv2 extension
 ○ Better MPR selection heuristics
 ○ Guidance on OLSRv2 restart
 ○ RFC 7779 (DAT Metric) to Proposed Standard
 ○ RFC 7722 (Multi-Topology Extension to OLSRv2) to Proposed Standard
 ○ Others?

 - Potential new work items on the revised charter:
 ● DLEP Maintenance & Extensions – Obvious
 ● Babel Maintenance & Extensions – Obvious
 ● Babel for IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) Mesh – For discussion
 ● Energy-efficient routing in MANETs – For discussion
 ● New approaches to multicast in MANETs – For discussion
 ○ Bitstring-based (inspired by BIER)
 ○ Federation of heterogeneous MANETs with different (proprietary) solutions
 ● Autonomous / ‘asynchronous’ management for MANETs – For discussion, more
speculative (Former AD: “I don’t want to see a DTNMA for MANET”) ● Reactive
MANET routing protocol – A previous AODVv2 effort was dropped
 ● Hybrid (pro-active / reactive) routing protocol – For discussion, need
Reactive first?
● RFC 2501bis, Informational overview of MANET Routing Performance
Evaluation – For discussion
 ● Other topics that WG participants would want to work on?


On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 9:26 AM Abdussalam Baryun <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> This is a draft of my understanding/update on the re-charter proposal with
> related discussions of previous meetings/list_comments,
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> The WG Charter Proposal:
>
> Updating MANET use case work
> Proactive Routing: OLSRv2 development work
> DLEP development work
> Multicast Implementation and defining problems to be solved
> Reactive Routing: AODVv2 implementation and adoption (check ref [2] [3])
> Reactive Routing: DSRv2 implementation
>
> Milestones:
> - The DLEP drafts are updated and will be submitted to IESG.
> - Implementations of experimental WG RFCs
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> My understanding from previous discussions and last meeting [1]:
> - There are three drafts requesting for this WG adoption but still waiting
> (draft are now dated expired)
> - I proposed evaluation of all MANET experimental RFCs within last meeting
> - I proposed update of RFC2501 and write a draft for MANET use cases
> within last meeting.
> - There are some suggestions to develop RFC7181/OLSRv2 for future if there
> are demand (some comments on list from participants).
> - The AODVv2 draft is requesting WG adoption
> - There is interest and welling from Charlie to work on AODVv2 (with
> submitted draft, and presentation for this meeting)
> - Two participants requesting that new work to be implemented in open
> source software (OSS) (e.g. as willingness of participation of
> implementation in OSS is not clear in this WG).
> - There is interest and welling from me to work on manet use cases and
> technologies (mentioned in meeting, work in progress, not yet submitted
> draft_00)
> - There is interest and welling from Ronald to work on manet multicast
> (mentioned in meeting, and not yet submitted draft_00), even though there
> was some comments in the last meeting from one participant that
> manet_muticast has problems.
> - There is interest and welling from me to work on DSRv2 (mentioned in
> meeting, and not yet submitted draft), also interest and welling to
> implement.
> - The Babel protocol development and new_work to be included and there are
> wellings to support as participants of their WG joined with MANET WG.
> - No clear interest from the WG on hybrid routing, but there was some
> discussions on the list.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++
>
> References:
>
> [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/minutes-118-manet/
> [2]
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/manet/qEyyrWc6rKkcHlk2JGU1cF-wo2Q/
> [3]
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/manet/Nr6cgHgSU17PoSqHuFCfxCBwRyc/
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