AP5: Action Point Last Call Re: [DNA-BOF] AP5: cataloguing L2 Hintsfor DNA.

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

Hi Alper (and all),

I'm not sure if this is kosher, but I'd like to
ask for an action point last call, which will last
until the end of Monday in the Americas (just
so people who are away this week can comment too).

The Last Call is on discussion of whether an
"L2 Hints Catalogue/Survey for DNA" should be on
the charter.

I'm not worried about details, although the
description below looks as good as any to start
with.

Please indicate if you are for or against this
proposal, providing reasons if necessary.

You have until Tue 5 August 2003, 12:00 UTC to
make comments.

Please do not stop discussing potential details
of a draft, since this may assist people in
reaching their decisions (one way or the other :)

Greg

Alper Yegin wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
> 
>