Re: What was the Chameleon disaster?

google for "ietf manet chameleon"...

or use this link:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ramrekha-manet-cml-01

Someone put AODV and OLSR (v1) into one protocol, decided that it was
trivial to know when to switch and called it "hybrid/adaptive"... the
WG had a few "pointy" questions the person could not answer... and
because his "hybrid protocol" was already done, the author wasn't
really interesting in building on it or fixing things.

Henning Rogge

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 9:57 PM Stevens, Jim A Collins
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:11:22 +0200, Henning Rogge <[email protected]> wrote:
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> | > Hybrid (proactive /reactive) Routing protocol
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> | MANET WG failed at "reactive routing" because of non-technical issues... I don't think Hybrid protocols would do much better. I still remember the
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> | Chameleon disaster.
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> Henning - What was the Chameleon disaster?
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> Jim Stevens
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