Re: Requirements

["John G. Waclawsky" <jgw@cisco.com>]

Was there any cataloguing (by any yardstick) of wireless activities (or things related to wireless)? ... a cross reference anywhere?       Regards  John

Burke Chris-CCB007 wrote:

> The IAB had a wireless conference a bit over a year ago; it included a review of some of the work applicable to wireless.
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> Based on my own research, there are about 120 IETF working groups active at any time, and of these, about 60% are doing work that is applicable to wireless in one way or another.
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> Of course, some of this high percentage relies on the premise that wireless IS NOT DIFFERENT. Given this world view, any IETF work related to the future of the internet, new applications, new transports, security, Quality of Service, IPv6, etc, is also related to wireless.
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> Now, of these, the fraction in which "wireless issues" are being taken specifically into account is quite low. This does not mean the work isn't related to wireless; it means, that people with an interest in wireless are not strong participants in the groups.
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> Some of the more obvious groups that are thinking about wireless are PILC, SEAMOBY, etc.
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> Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John G. Waclawsky [mailto:jgw@cisco.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 8:16 AM
> To: more@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Requirements
>
> Does anyone know if the IETF does an cataloguing of activities with regards to wireless?
> For example is there a cross reference anywhere that describes wireless activities going
> on in the IETF?  This information would probably be very uesful for the mobile
> operators.    Regards  John