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Re: What needs to happen wrt. MIP transition..



Pekka Savola wrote:
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

The larsson-v6ops-mip-scenarios builds in part on an earlier version of the tsirtsis-dsmip-problem draft, and also on the same notes as the williams draft builds on. I'm going through the latest version of the tsirtsis draft now - it would be nice to hear from George and Hesham if they feel we've managed to capture the necessary parts of the tsirtsis draft in the larsson draft, and if not, what would be needed to make it more complete.

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I think what we need is:

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

Agreed,

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

Agreed,

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

Yes, this will be the next crux :-)

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).

Yes, that would be good.

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 :-)

I'm keeping my fingers crossed :-)

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

Agreed. I'm willing to put some time/effort into this.

	Henrik