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Strawman Recharter
Nov 12, 2002
Basic Problem
“The purpose of this working group is to
standardize IP routing protocol
functionality suitable for wireless
application within routing systems with
dynamic topologies. The design
assumption is that the wireless links
connecting routers within a MANET may
be random and dynamic, due to motion or
other factors; thus, the network topology
may change rapidly and unpredictably.”
Strawman Way Forward: PART 1
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Under a revised charter, the WG will operate under a reduced
scope by targeting the promotion of a number of core routing
protocol specifications to EXPERIMENTAL RFC status (i.e.,
AODV, DSR, OLSR and TBRPF)
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Some maturity of understanding and implementation
exists with each of these protocols, yet more operational
experimentation experience is seen as desirable.
Overall, these protocols provide a basic set of MANET
capabilities covering both reactive and proactive design
spaces.”
Way Forward PART 2:
Scoped Engineering Phase
” With this experimental base established, the WG
will move on to design and develop MANET
common group engineered routing specification(s)
and introduce these to the Internet Standards
track. Lessons learned from existing proposals
will provide useful design input, but the target for
this effort is a group engineering effort not a
recompilation of an existing approach. “
Strawman Reduced Scope
” The near term design goals of the WG are to support small-tomedium sized MANET network areas scaling up to approximately
one hundred nodes. Provided progress is made on the core unicast
standards, ancillary work may be considered by the WG including
development of specifications and guidelines to support additional
functionality, as necessary, for purposes such as MANET-related
address configuration/management, Internet gateway functions,
MANET-wide broadcast (flooding) or multicast services.
This working group will work closely with the Internet Research Task
Force (IRTF) groups on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (subgroup?) for
tracking and considering any mature developments from the related
research community. ”
Strawman Milestones
Done: Produce Design Considerations RFC
Done: Submit I-D(s) of Proposed Protocols
Done: Evolve I-D proposals and explore issues
Done: Promote implementations and testing of proposed I-Ds
Present: Restructure WG to be more narrowly focused, split off
important related IRTF work
JAN 2003: Progress Core Reactive Protocol(s) Experimental RFC
status
JAN 2003: Revisit WG Goals and problem statement(s)
MAR 2003: Progress Core Proactive Protocol(s) to Experimental RFC
status
JUN 2003: Focused MANET WG Problem Statement(s) and Scoped
Engineering Goals