[manet] Re: [IPv6]Re: IPv6 Address for Ad Hoc Networks

Hi Kyle,

On 02.08.24 at 20:45 Kyle Rose wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 2:35 PM Bob Hinden <[email protected]> wrote:
>> IMHO, this draft should not specify any specific prefixes.   It should all be “To be assigned”.   Including it now is a distraction to the more important question.
>>
>> I think the question that needs to be answered is:  Is there a real need for Ad Hoc IPv6 addresses?   Focusing now on the details or which or how many prefixes it might use doesn’t address that.
> 
> It sounds like the main example use case is a mobile ad-hoc network,
> e.g., of vehicles traveling on a highway at different speeds and with
> no ability to pre-define a mesh or to pre-determine routes within that
> network to connected resources.

Our use case is different: it is a zero-touch routing protocol that
establishes connectivity for the control plane. It could also be used
in MANET contexts, but its first use case was an ordinary fixed network
that needs to be managed.
The routing protocol is ID-based, so it figures out the routes by
itself and does not require prefix-based rules to establish routes.

> Has anyone proposed concretely building such a thing with a particular
> application in mind?
> 
> I'm trying to figure out whether this is WG or RG territory.

There is probably no easy answer.
I presented KIRA
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bless-rtgwg-kira/
two times in the RTGWG.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/115/materials/slides-115-rtgwg-sessa-2022-11-10-kira-rtgwg-01
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/118/materials/slides-118-rtgwg-06-kira

So our use case is an ID-based routing protocol where we want to embed 
the 112bit NodeID into an IPv6 address.


Regards,
  Roland


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