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

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

Hello Pyungsoo,

We intend to add more link-layer types in the next revision of the draft.
Bluetooth may be one of them.

Alper


> 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
>>     
>> 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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