Re: [DNA-BOF] Re: [mobile-ip] Announce: BoF Proposal: DetectingNetwork Attachment

[Gregory Daley <Greg.Daley@eng.monash.edu.au>]

Hi Thomas,

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
Date: Friday, June 20, 2003 8:55 pm
Subject: Re: [DNA-BOF] Re: [mobile-ip] Announce: BoF Proposal: 
Detecting Network Attachment

> > For "Movement Detection", a mobile node performs the following tasks
> > 1) Checking the (partial) reachability of current AR
> 
> Can someone point me to the IETF definition of an AR?

There is currently a definition of AR in the document:

draft-ietf-seamoby-mobility-terminology-04.txt
 
> I suspect I'm getting needlessly confused because I don't share the
> same definition of AR that some people have. I.e., an AR is the
> counterpart to an AP, and in this context, both are associated
> specifically with wireless links.

You are correct that this has come about in mobility related 
circles.  I think we will have to remember that people who 
contribute to this BoF are likely to have a wide range
of backgrounds (wider at least than IP mobility). 

> Or, is an AR (as used here) just the default, first-hop router an IP
> device is using?

Yes.  I think that this is always the definition (although it
may not seem so). 

Greg