Re: [iesg-secretary #5490] New MANET charter

["Jacqueline Hargest" <jhargest@foretec.com>]

Your request #5490 was updated by jhargest:

IESG: FYI

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>From: Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>
>To: iesg-secretary@ietf.org
>Subject: New MANET charter

Please put this on the agenda.

The text below reflects the "grand plan" for the WG, i.e.,
transition to the engineering mode, which we've discussed
before.

Wrt milestones: AODV has indeed been submitted already and
made it to a telechat, the authors are working on an updated
version.

BTW, did we agree to cc the co-chairs on such requests?

--
Alex


Description of Working Group:

The purpose of this working group is to standardize IP routing
protocol functionality suitable for wireless routing application
within both static and dynamic topologies. The fundamental design
issues are that the wireless link interfaces have some unique routing
interface characteristics and that node topologies within a wireless
routing region may experience increased dynamics, due to motion or
other factors.

In the past, this WG has focused on exploring a broad range of MANET
problems, performance issues, and related candidate protocols. Under
this revised charter, the WG will operate under a reduced scope by
targeting the promotion of a number of core routing protocol
specifications to EXPERIMENTAL RFC status (i.e., AODV, DSR, OLSR and
TBRPF). Some maturity of understanding and implementation exists with
each of these protocols, yet more operational experimentation
experience is seen as desirable. Overall, these protocols provide a
basic set of MANET capabilities covering both reactive and proactive
design spaces.

With this experimental protocol base established, the WG will move on
to design and develop MANET common group engineered routing
specification(s) and introduce these to the Internet Standards track.
Lessons learned from existing proposals will provide useful design
input, but the target for this effort is a common group engineering
effort not a recompilation of an existing approaches.

This working group will work closely with the Internet Research Task
Force (IRTF) groups on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (RRG) for tracking and
considering any mature developments from the related research
community.

Goals and Milestones:

Done: Submit I-D of MANET Design Considerations
Done: Produce Informational RFC on Manet Design Considerations
Done: Submit I-D(s) of Proposed Protocols
Done: Explore basic performance and implementation issues of various approaches
Done: Promote implementations and testing of proposed I-D(s)
Done: Update I-D(s) based upon initial design experiences

JAN 2003: Submit AODV specification to IESG for publication as Experimental RFC
MAR 2003: Submit DSR specification to IESG for publication as Experimental RFC
MAR 2003: Submit OLSR specification to IESG for publication as Experimental RFC
MAR 2003: Submit TBRPF specification to IESG for publication as Experimental RFC

JUN 2003: Develop a further focused problem statement and address an approach
          for a common engineering work effort

NOV 2003: Reevaluate the WG's potential based on the problem statement consensus

Active Internet-Drafts (planned):

Ad Hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing
</internet-drafts/draft-ietf-manet-aodv-12.txt>
The Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
</internet-drafts/draft-ietf-manet-dsr-07.txt>
Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR)
</internet-drafts/draft-ietf-manet-olsr-06.txt>
Topology Broadcast based on Reverse-Path Forwarding (TBRPF)
</internet-drafts/draft-ietf-manet-tbrpf-06.txt>

Request For Comments:

Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET): Routing Protocol Performance Issues and
Evaluation Considerations (RFC 2501) </rfc/rfc2501.txt>