Re: [Roll] last call for roll charter text.

Dear Chairs,

The work items are indeed clearer. I support the charter.

Thanks,
Rahul

On 16 Sep 2016 6:57 p.m., "peter van der Stok" <stokcons@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Below the text for the ROLL charter as discussed in Berlin and on the
> mailing list.
> The last additions are the milestones based on the feedback of the past
> months.
>
> Many thanks for all your contributions. The text is shorter and clearer in
> my opinion.
>
> Please react to (approve) the text, and review the milestone dates when
> they concern your work.
>
> End of call: Saturday October 1.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Peter + Ines
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> ____________________________________________________________
> ____________________________________________________
>
>
> Charter for ROLL Working Group
>
> Low power and Lossy Networks (LLNs ) are made up of many embedded devices
> with limited power, memory, and processing resources. They are
> interconnected by a variety of links, such as IEEE 802.15.4, Bluetooth, Low
> Power WiFi, wired or other low power PLC (Powerline Communication) links.
> LLNs are transitioning to an end-to-end IP-based solution to avoid the
> problem of non-interoperable networks interconnected by protocol
> translation gateways and proxies.
>
> RFC7102 discusses ROLL specific aspects of LLNs, and RFC7228 provides
> additional terminology for constrained devices.
>
> RFC 5548, 5673, 5826, and 5876 describe the requirements for LLNs from
> several application perspectives.
> The Working Group has focused on routing solutions for the areas:
> connected home, building, and urban sensor networks. It has developed a
> Framework that takes into consideration various aspects including high
> reliability in the presence of time varying loss characteristics and
> connectivity while permitting low-power operation with very modest memory
> and CPU pressure in networks potentially comprising a very large number
> (several thousands) of nodes.
>
> The Working Group continues to focus on routing issues for LLN and to
> maintain, improve and streamline the protocols developed by the working
> group, including RPL and MPL.
>
> ROLL will coordinate closely with the working groups in other areas that
> focus on constrained networks and/or constrained nodes, such as 6lo (Int)
> and lwig (Int) and CoRE (App). The working groups PiM (rtg), BIER (rtg) and
> MANET (rtg) will be consulted when ROLL work can profit from their results.
> The Working group will align with the 6man (Int) WG when needed.
>
> Work Items are:
>
> - Guidance in using RFC6553, RFC6554, and IPv6-in-IPv6 encapsulation. The
> WGLC on this work will be shared with 6lo.
>
> - Compression of  RFC6553, RFC6554, and IP headers in the 6LoWPAN
> adaptation layer context. (coordinated with 6lo WG).
>
> - Additional protocol elements to reduce packet size and the amount of
> required routing states
>
> - Automatic selection of MPL forwarders to reduce message replication.
> (coordinated with PiM wg)
>
> - Data models for RPL and MPL management (coordinated with netmod and PiM
> wg)
>
> - Alternative Multicast algorithm see for example Bier forwarding.
> (coordinated with PiM wg and relateds wg, e.g. BIER)
>
> - Methods to improve or correct the current RPL behavior and the other
> protocols defined by the working group.
>
> - Alternative Routing mechanism for constrained environments see for
> example AODV-RPL
>
>
> Milestones
>
> DATE                            Milestone
> September 2018            Recharter WG or close
> July 2018       Initial submission of a solution for
> draft-jadhav-roll-no-path-dao-ps to IESG
> November 2017   Initial submission of draft-satish-roll-aodv-rpl to IESG
> November 2017   Initial submission of draft-gundogan-roll-dis-modifications
> to IESG
> July 2017        Initial submission of draft-bergmann-bier-ccast to IESG
> July 2017         Initial submission of draft-vanderstok-roll-mpl-forw-select
> to IESG
> March 2017      Initial submission of draft-vanderstok-roll-mpl-yang to
> IESG
> March 2017      Initial submission of draft-thubert-roll-dao-projection
> to IESG
> November 2016             Initial Submission of the draft about when to
> use RFC6553, RFC6554, and IPv6-in-IPv6 encapsulation
> Draft-ietf-roll-useofrplinfo to the IESG.
> November 2016            IESG Evaluation of draft-roll-routing-dispatch.
>
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