[manet] Re: MANET WG Charter and MANET Internetworking

Juliusz and Donald, thank you for adding this perspective. The intended application is for
autoconfiguration and Internetworking for MANETs that may occasionally come in contact
with an Internet access point. For example, a disaster relief mission of ground nodes with
omni-directional radios that may occasionally be over-flown by an aerial asset that has the
equivalent of a 5G GnodeB on-board. Another example is if one or more of the ground
nodes has a Starlink radio in addition to its MANET radios. But, applications aside, this
seems like it might bear further discussion. Donlad, is there a chance we could have an
agenda slot for this at the next IETF?

Thank you - Fred

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2025 1:35 AM
> To: Donald Eastlake <[email protected]>
> Cc: manet <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: MANET WG Charter and MANET Internetworking
> 
> >> I couldn't attend IETF-122, so perhaps I'm speaking out of turn, but if
> >> we're referring to the text on page 8 of
> >>
> >>   https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/materials/slides-122-manet-draft-charter-text-ietf-122-01
> >>
> >> then I think it is way too specific,
> 
> > Well, text for the Charter on this topic should be more problem oriented
> > and less solution oriented. [...]  Do you have an alternative text to
> > suggest?
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm not sure what is the problem that Fred's suggested text
> aims to solve.  If it's manual interconnection of MANET with the Internet,
> then I believe the problem is already solved.  If it's automatic intercon-
> nection of MANET's through the Internet, then it's an interesting problem,
> and it deserves a whole presentation.  If it's autoconfiguration of MANET
> nodes, then it's a deep, deep rabbit hole, and in that case I suggest we
> very carefully limit the scope of what we aim to do.
> 
> -- Juliusz
> 
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