Session Date/Time: 05 Nov 2024 18:00

manet

Summary

The MANET working group meeting covered draft statuses, presentations on new technologies, and discussion of the working group charter. Key discussions revolved around the progress of credit-based flow control drafts, potential new work items related to connecting MANETs to the internet, Kademlia-based routing (Kira), and Babel routing within 802.11 mesh networks.

Key Discussion Points

Credit-Based Flow Control Drafts: The authors are overloaded and the chairs are helping to move these drafts forward by addressing area directorate comments.
Individual Drafts by Henning Rogge: Review and comments are needed. Don has already commented on some of them and the chairs will follow up and review the radio quality draft.
MANET Internetworking: Fred presented on using Arrow and Omni interfaces to connect MANETs to the internet. Rick Taylor questioned the need for a separate addressing scheme and suggested leveraging existing IPv6 mechanisms.
Kademlia Directed ID Based Routing Architecture (Kira): Roland presented Kira as a scalable, zero-touch routing architecture for control planes. Rick Taylor expressed enthusiasm for the technology. A side meeting was scheduled to dive deeper into the technology.
Babel for 802.11 Mesh: Don Eastlake presented on using Babel as a path selection protocol within 802.11 mesh networks. The discussion covered the benefits of using Babel in this context and the need for a draft RFC specifying how to use Babel within 802.11 mesh, and its suitability within the IETF.
Charter Discussion: The working group reviewed the current draft charter, discussing potential additions and modifications. Concerns were raised about energy levels for certain work items, specifically DLIP.

Decisions and Action Items

Action Item: Chairs to address area directorate comments on credit-based flow control drafts and generate new versions.
Action Item: Chairs to review Henning Rogge's drafts, specifically the radio quality draft.
Action Item: Fred to provide a paragraph of text for the charter related to MANET internetworking.
Decision: Support in the draft charter for Babel maintenance and development was supported.
Decision: The revised charter line should be narrowly scoped into things that are appropriate to be doing in the IETF.

Next Steps

Continue addressing comments on credit-based flow control drafts and publish new versions.
Review and comment on Henning Rogge's individual drafts.
Further discussion of the charter text on the mailing list.
Attend the side meeting about Kira.
Consider how to frame a draft charter regarding Babel routing within 802.11 mesh.