Next Steps in IP Mobility BOF (nsiim) Tuesday, March 18 at 1300-1400 ================================ CHAIRS: Phil Roberts Basavaraj Patil Gabriel Montenegro DESCRIPTION: The Mobile IP working group has defined basic mobility and associated specifications for IPv4 and is at the verge of finishing the base specification for IPv6. It is now a good time to look at the activities of the working group and how to better structure future efforts. Upon doing so, it is evident that beyond their superficial resemblance, mobility for IPv4 and IPv6 differ considerably. They are very different with respect to their underlying technologies, deployment issues and levels of maturity. MIPv4 has been a proposed standard for several years, has been adopted by other standard development organizations and has been deployed commercially. The basic specifications for MIPv6, on the other hand, are just now being finalized. Whereas for MIPv4 the more pressing issues at this moment are to further ease its deployment, for MIPv6 the more urgent work is still on finalizing protocol details and mechanisms of a more basic nature. This leads to a two-pronged approach in which the basic idea is to divide the current working group into two new ones: one concentrating on IPv4 mobility and the other on IPv6 mobility. This purpose of this BOF is to discuss this proposal and to seek IETF input on how each of the resultant working groups should be chartered. Another issue to be discussed is to figure out how to best determine when items should be adopted by the working group(s). As an example, when items are more of a research nature, it may be best not to pursue them in the IETF as other organizations may be better suited for this. Other potential criteria to apply are the existence of independent implementations and/or deployment plans as a measure of interest in a given proposal. The chairs also seek feedback on how best to interface with other working groups, both within the IETF (e.g., to tackle ND optimizations with IPv6) and elsewhere (e.g., to coordinate work on movement detection with the IEEE). Agenda (1 hour slot): Reasons to recharter, general directions (chairs) - 10 min MIPv4 Charter proposal (chairs) MIPv6 Charter proposal (chairs) Open Discussion - 40 min Next Steps (AD's and chairs) - 10 min Mailing list: mipcharter@sunroof.eng.sun.com To subscribe - To: mipcharter-request@sunroof.eng.sun.com data: [un]subscribe To post - To: mipcharter@sunroof.eng.sun.com (From: must be subscribed) ------------------------------------------