A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Unified L2 Abstractions for L3-Driven Fast Handover Author(s) : F. Teraoka Filename : draft-irtf-mobopts-l2-abstractions-07.txt Pages : 39 Date : 2008-2-20 This draft proposes unified L2 abstractions for L3-driven fast handovers. For efficient network communication, it is vital for a protocol layer to know or utilize other layer's information such as a form of L2 triggers. However, each protocol layer is basically designed independently. Since each protocol layer is also implemented independently in current operating systems, it is very hard to exchange control information between protocol layers. This draft defines nine kinds of L2 abstractions in the form of "primitives" to achieve fast handovers in the network layer as a means of solving the problem. This mechanism is called "L3-driven fast handovers" because the network layer initiates L2 and L3 handovers by using the "primitives". This document is a product of the IP Mobility Optimizations (MobOpts) Research Group. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-irtf-mobopts-l2-abstractions-07.txt To remove yourself from the I-D Announcement list, send a message to i-d-announce-request@ietf.org with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. You can also visit https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/I-D-announce to change your subscription settings. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-irtf-mobopts-l2-abstractions-07.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
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