Re: [DNA-BOF] FW: I-D ACTION:draft-yegin-dna-l2-hints-00.txt

[Pyungsoo Kim <kimps@samsung.com>]

Dear Alper Yegin,

Thanks for your helpful elaboration.

Your draft is covering wireless LAN (such as IEEE 802.11) and wireless WAN (such as cdma2000, and GPRS).

Why don't you cover wireless PAN (such as Bluetooth) ?

I think *wireless PAN* might be one of  *mobile IP* environments.

Thanks

pyungsoo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alper Yegin" <alper@docomolabs-usa.com>
To: <dna@eng.monash.edu.au>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 5:56 AM
Subject: [DNA-BOF] FW: I-D ACTION:draft-yegin-dna-l2-hints-00.txt


> Folks,
> 
> Please see the "Link-layer Hints for Detecting Network Attachments" I-D
> announcement below.
> 
> This is an attempt to catalogue useful link-layer hints for network
> attachment detection. Draft covers IEEE 802.11, cdma2000, and GPRS links as
> examples (more to be added later). And defines an abstraction.
> 
> Please read... Comments welcome.
> 
> Alper
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>     Title        : Link-layer Hints for Detecting Network Attachments
>     Author(s)    : A. Yegin, et. al.
>     Filename    : draft-yegin-dna-l2-hints-00.txt
>     Pages        : 0
>     Date        : 2003-10-20
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> Certain link-layer technologies are capable of providing various link
> status information to the IP module. Indicating the status of the link,
> such as connected or disconnected, and the link identifier can help the
> IP module make intelligent decisions regarding configuration changes.
> It has been identified that such information can be used as hints for
> network attachment detection purposes. This draft provides a
> non-exhaustive catalogue of such hints from well-known link-layer
> technologies. Furthermore, a high-level abstraction is defined to
> categorize such hints.
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