RE: on the point of mobility & multihoming

["Kanchei Loa" <loa@ieee.org>]

> >Kanchei Loa wrote:
>
> > There are many factors (technical and non-technical) affecting the
decision
> > to select a specific link layer  for ISP connections. The performance of
all
> > wireless technologies varies with time and space, which is the  nature
of the
> > beast.
>
> Masataka Ohta wrote:

> There is nothing wireless specific.
>
> Try to use 100 base T with 500m UTP-3 cables and 10 dumb hubs
> cascaded.
>

Well, a connection between exit router and ISP using "100 base T with 500m
UTP-3 cables and 10 dumb hubs" is out of the specification of IEEE standard.
The user won't expect M6 solution would work on an out-of-spec connection
nor should this WG. But the same user would expect M6 solution maintains
reasonable performance (or degrade gracefully) with his "within-spec"
wireless link to ISP independent of the weather condition.

However, there is a possibility that a M6 solution working on the wireless
connection might patch the "100 base T with 500m UTP-3 cables and 10 dumb
hubs" problem (although the link layer might have shut down the interface
already before the IP layer have the chance to take care of it).

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Kanchei Loa
loa@ieee.org