A modified charter has been submitted for the Ad-Hoc Network Autoconfiguration working group in the Internet Area of the IETF. The IESG has not made any determination as yet. The modified charter is provided below for informational purposes only. Please send your comments to the IESG mailing list (iesg@ietf.org) by Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Ad-Hoc Network Autoconfiguration (autoconf) ------------------------------------------------------------- Last Modified: 2009-02-18 Current Status: Active Working Group Additional information is available at tools.ietf.org/wg/autoconf Chair(s): Ryuji Wakikawa [ryuji.wakikawa@gmail.com] Thomas Clausen [T.Clausen@computer.org] Internet Area Director(s): Jari Arkko [jari.arkko@piuha.net] Mark Townsley [townsley@cisco.com] Internet Area Advisor: Jari Arkko [jari.arkko@piuha.net] Mailing Lists: General Discussion: autoconf@ietf.org To Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/autoconf/current/maillist.html Description of Working Group: In order to communicate among themselves, ad hoc nodes (refer to RFC 2501) need to configure their network interface(s) with local addresses that are valid within an ad hoc network. Ad hoc nodes may also need to configure globally routable addresses, in order to communicate with devices on the Internet. From the IP layer perspective, an ad hoc network presents itself as a L3 multi-hop network formed over a collection of links. The main purpose of the AUTOCONF WG is to describe the addressing model for ad hoc networks and how nodes in these networks configure their addresses. It is required that such models do not cause problems for ad hoc-unaware parts of the system, such as standard applications running on an ad hoc node or regular Internet nodes attached to the ad hoc nodes. This group's effort may include the development of new protocol mechanisms, should the existing IP autoconfiguration mechanisms be found inadequate. However, the first task of the working group is to describe one practical addressing model for ad hoc networks. Once this sole work item is completed, the group can be rechartered to work on additional issues. Goals and Milestones: Apr 2009 Submit initial draft on address configuration in ad hoc networks Sep 2009 Submit address configuration draft to IESG as Informational or close WG _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
