Re: [DNA-BOF] BoF Last Call on DNA WG Charter.

[Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>]

Alper Yegin <alper@docomolabs-usa.com> writes:

> Minimally, being able to recognize attachment to a "place it (host) knows"
> requires ability to uniquely identify the links. So, we at least need an
> abstraction for "link identifiers". Please see
> draft-yegin-dna-l2-hints-00.txt .

Do you mean there needs to be a way to (perhaps administratively)
assign a globally unique link ID to each link (which could, e.g., be
included in an RA), so a host can easily tell if its moved from one
link to another?

> >> The group will also undertake liaison opportunities with link-layer
> >> standardization authorities, in an effort to improve the quality of
> >> link indications for network attachment detection in future wireless
> >> link technologies.
> > 
> > This needs a lot more justification in my mind. I.e., it sounds like
> > wishful thinking on our part. What specific SDOs are we talking about?
> > And which of those is actually doing stuff that we'd have influence
> > on? 

> IEEE Handoff Executive Committee Study Group http://www.ieee802.org/handoff/
> Here is a statement from their initial call for contributions, as one of the
> sugggested topics:

Who in this WG is actually engaged  in this activity? Could they
please comment on the current status of this work and what IEEE is
actually doing (and under what sort of timetable?)

Thomas