Re: how mobile do we want to be

[Margaret Wasserman <margaret@thingmagic.com>]

At 9:05 PM +0100 3/22/05, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> >  and the original discussions, a year or so
> >  ago, had clear examples of interest, with mobile phones switcing between
> >  cell phone linkage and 802.11 linkage being one of the more interesting.
>
> You have to drill a bit deeper as mobile phones aren't an 
> application so it's impossible to determine whether they need layer 
> 4 stability on top of layer 3 mobility.

Actually, it isn't even clear to me that the solutions for hand-off 
from 3GPP to 802.11 would involve L3 mobility.  The hand-off could 
occur between the lower layers of 3GPP and the lower layers of 
802.11, requiring no IP address changes at L3.

Margaret