Re: [DNA-BOF] AP5: cataloguing L2 Hints for DNA.

[Alper Yegin <alper@docomolabs-usa.com>]

I agree with many others on this list. We should look at already deployed
link-layers as a starting point. I'd say 1xRTT, GPRS, IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth
can be our initial list.

We should identify what hints they are capable of providing. Furthermore, we
should discuss how these hints are already used in various architectures.
So, for example how 3GPP2 utilizes hints it obtains from 1xRTT, and 3GPP
with GPRS. 

This can finally lead to abstraction of link-layer hints and how they map to
real, link-layer specific hints.

We have already done a similar work earlier:
http://www.yegin.org/alper/draft-manyfolks-l2-mobilereq-02.txt

We need another draft that is DNA-oriented (although the overlap with the
above draft will be significant).

I can volunteer to be the editor of this draft. We need L2 experts for each
one of the aforementioned links to come forward and write the respective
sections. Any volunteers for them?

Alper



> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to raise a discussion based on the
> BoF, where this action point was raised
> without completing an assessment of its
> suitability (or usefulness) to DNA.
> 
> I've just posted the work list proposal
> provisionally containing this document.
> 
> Do people think it would be useful to
> pursue?
> 
> Please make yourself heard, so that
> we can determine if there's interest
> in this group to take on the work.
> 
> Greg
> 
>