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Hi Greg and all, since I published the above draft in Feb 03, I have not followed up with it as I was slightly disappointed that the idea was not 'welcome' in the IP community. Since then, I have only simulated the proposal in various environments (multiple UDP/TCP session, group mobility) with one of the graduate students in my lab. The idea is SIMLE, and the results are OBVIOUS. Simulating/Prototyping the idea is trivial, but we need to standardize it in order to see the actual deployment. After re-visiting my draft, I think that the draft can contribute in some ways to this new WG. I see that there are some new drafts which provide similar ideas. That's great to know! Lastly, I still believed that using L2 to provide 'L3 information in an extensible manner' is 'a' way to go. However, we must be careful not to 'bloat' the L2 beacons/control-messages. Remember that my original objectives are MD and CARD. It is really up to the IEEE 802.11 to give us an element ID to implement this solution. As in what to put in, it is up to us (e.g. DNA), the L3 guys. Comments? Cheers, Paul Tan |