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

[Charlie Perkins <[e-mail]>]

Hello folks,

I support this charter.  I think it is clear and worthwhile and achievable.

Regards,
Charlie P.


On 9/16/2016 6:23 AM, peter van der Stok 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.
>