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Re: [RAM] Request to advance RFC4214 to Proposed Standard

that's really kind of too bad, as only the teensy-tiny Manets built with 802.11 cards are limited in scope to small domains. For them to scale properly, one will need to route, and one routes among sites.
Fort Monmouth specifcally told me once that they considered an individual soldier to be a site, as a soldier will have several addressable devices in his PAN and they will want to route to the collection of devices. 

On Mar 27, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote:


FWIW, please note also that I am specifically intending to
equate the terms "MANET" and "site" (see also the definition
for "MANET" in the I-D listed below).

Fred
fred.l.templin@boeing.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Templin, Fred L
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:05 PM
To: Fred Baker; Brian E Carpenter; Ron Bonica; Jari Arkko
Cc: v6ops@ops.ietf.org; Lindqvist Erik Kurt
Subject: RE: [RAM] Request to advance RFC4214 to Proposed Standard

Fred,

Responding only to this one point for now:


In short, this
is not just "an" approach to coexistence; if the IPv6 Operations
Working Group is going to put its imprimatur on a technology,
I would want to know that we were recommending the *right* one.


What ISATAP is good for is providing a link for connecting dual-
stack routers within Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs), as well as
mechanisms for autoconfiguration and discovery of multiple Internet
gateways. It is important to note that the term "MANET" could mean
anything from mobile platforms (planes, trains and automobiles), to a
home network, to a singleton node with an aribtarily-complex network
of physical or virtual nodes within. For other examples, please see
the thread on "Real-life Deploymnet of MANETs" on the MANET mailing
list:

  http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/manet/current/msg09029.html

Informational aspects of the operation of ISATAP are documented
in "MANET Autoconfiguration"; see:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-templin-autoconf- dhcp-07.txt 

but please note that this work (as well as ISATAP itself) derived
from an earlier work titled: "Virtual Ethernet".

Important point is that for the use-case of dual-stack routers
communicating within a MANET, ISATAP already provides a mechanism
that satisfies the needs of the IETF AUTOCONF wg and the so-called
"MANEMO" interest group. Plus, it is shipping in major vendor OS's
today.

Thanks - Fred
fred.l.templin@boeing.com