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

["Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>]

Fred, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Baker [mailto:fred@cisco.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:03 AM
> To: Templin, Fred L
> Cc: Brian E Carpenter; Ron Bonica; Jari Arkko; 
> v6ops@ops.ietf.org; Lindqvist Erik Kurt
> Subject: Re: [RAM] Request to advance RFC4214 to Proposed Standard
> 
> Good to know, and certainly a good thing. Until Ron tells me  
> otherwise, that's as far as I'm going in this discussion.

IMHO, there seems to be enough interest here such that I would
now like to formally re-open my request to advance RFC4214 as
standards-track (recall that in my 3/27/07 message to the RAM
list I said that I was suspending the request pending further
discussion).

Should we wait to see what the ADs have to say about it now?

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

> On Mar 28, 2007, at 12:05 AM, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> 
> > 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
>