RE: Routing area draft minutes available

["Dearlove, Christopher (UK)" <[e-mail]>]

Obviously (as I wasn't present) I'm not commenting on the minutes reflecting what was said. But to the questions asked about MANET:

> George Swallow: Building large packets by putting small packets together; large
>                packets more likely to get corrputed; how about sending smaller
>              packets?
> Justin: Smaller packets will get through more, which is not always good as you
>       don't want to find neighbours that you have a poor link to.

I think a more important point is that packets have overheads (headers for RFC 5444, UDP, IP, MAC and also media access overheads). So fewer packets can be a significant win.

> Chris Bowers: Why is the 2-hop neighbour important?
> Justin: Many of the algorithms require you to know your 2-hop neighbours.
> Chris: So unlike IS-IS, you need to be careful to constraing flooding? (Yes)
> Stan: RFC 5820 uses a 2-hop neighbourhood for flooding in OSPFv3.

RFC 3626 (OLSR) predates this in using two hop information to define MPRs (used for improved flooding and topology reduction), it's where some ideas in the experimental OSPF wireless extensions came from. And of course now we have OLSRv2 (RFC 7181) at Proposed Standard.

> Jehan Tremback: Does DLEP replace Hello in OLSR protocols?
> Justin: Not completely as the Hello messages require TLVs.

NHDP (RFC 6130), the owner of the HELLO messages in the OLSRv2 family, permits using any other sources of information (DLEP could be one) to augment HELLO messages (subject to certain constraints). But there are several things in HELLO messages that DLEP doesn't supply to the router - in particular, but not only, things added by OLSRv2 (MPRs, knowledge of OLSRv2 support using its metrics). I'm also not sure DLEP would provide the multiple interface information properly.

But even if DLEP did report such things radio to router, DLEP is entirely about that interface. DLEP defines no over the air signalling, which is what HELLO messages provide - to establish connectivity and exchange information. To use DLEP to provide the information that routers need to run NHDP/OLSRv2, you'd need to define an over the air signalling between radios. Or in other words, re-invent NHDP.

Rather, what might make sense is that if you want some over the air signalling for DLEP gather some of its information, you could add it to HELLO messages if running NHDP. (Not quite ideal, as HELLO messages are designed to run router to router, not radio to radio. And off course you may well not be running NHDP, in which case you would need another solution.)

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The draft minutes for the RTGAREA meeting at IETF 96 are now available.  Please let me know if you have any comments.
https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/96/minutes/minutes-96-rtgarea

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Jon

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