[manet] Re: MANET WG Charter and MANET Internetworking

> The phrase "operate autonomously when isolated" means that there is
> a need for some form of unique IP addressing that is somehow gotten
> without the aide of supporting network infrastructure and has no
> Internet topological reference.  So that, when the MANET
> (opportunistically) attaches to the Internet, it can't simply inject an
> aggregated IP prefix into BGP. So, there are different classes of IP
> addresses needed - those gotten from infrastructure, and those made
> available for autonomous operation when isolated.

There are some requirements here that you're not making explicit, and I'm
struggling to understand what they are.  Are you assuming that the MANET
starts up without having been assigned a globally-routable network prefix,
that it then connects to the Internet, and that it cannot renumber at that
point?

Where do these requirements come from?  Do they come from an actual usage
scenario?  Or have they been crafted in order to force the use of
a specific solution?

-- Juliusz

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