What needs to happen wrt. MIP transition..

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

Hi,

Now that quite a few people have signed up already...

The subject of transition/co-existence of various Mobile IP versions, 
in various different IP networks has been debated, on and off, for 
quite a while.

However, it seems that this has never reached the sufficient critical 
mass that people would agree on the scenarios, the problem statement, 
etc.

Different attempts at defining the scenarios/problems have been at 
least:

draft-larsson-v6ops-mip-scenarios-00.txt
draft-tsirtsis-dsmip-problem-03.txt
http://www.netcore.fi/pekkas/ietf/temp/draft-williams-mipv6-transition-00pre.txt
 [not published, and might not ever be]

Different attempts at defining solutions have been at least:

draft-soliman-v4v6-mipv6
draft-tsirtsis-v4v6-mipv4
draft-yamamoto-mipv6node-v4trav-00.txt

(But let's not get into the solution space just yet.)

I think what we need is:

 1) people reading those scenarios/problem statement documents, and 
commenting on them, after that,

 2) consolidating the different inputs into a single document, then

 3) figuring out which existing WG to process it and the follow-up 
work (or whether to spin off as a BOF)

Depending on if we manage to get to 2), but need more work on the 
document, it might be possible to run a BOF at IETF62 (or if we manage 
to get past even that, a BOF might not even be necessary).

But that requires quite a bit of work from the different parties on 
this list.  Hopefully the amount of energy/commitment from people will 
increase with the creation of this mailing list :-)

Someone(s) would have to knock their heads together and write a single 
document which would be a sufficiently good starting point.

Thoughts?  Opinions?  Fire away!

--
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings