[manet] Re: MANET WG Charter and MANET Internetworking

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Templin (US), Fred L <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2025 11:56 AM
> To: Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
> Cc: manet <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: [manet] Re: MANET WG Charter and MANET Internetworking
> 
> RFC2501 is still the primary reference for IETF MANET.
> 
> The inspiration for IETF MANET came from 1990s-era programs including US DoD Task Force XXI (google: "DoD Task Force XXI") and DARPA
> GloMo (google: "DARPA GloMo") which determined that standard OSPF was unsuitable for operation in dynamic tactical networks.

In still earlier decades, there was the DoD Packet Radio program mentioned by RFC2501 (google: "DoD Packet Radio SRI").
I went to work for SRI in 1997, and the SRI Packet Radio van was parked outside my office building as a historical artifact. Not too many people remember that one of the first nodes on the Internet (ARPNET at that time) was mobile.

> One of our recent documents is here:
> https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10758044
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2025 10:48 AM
> > To: Templin (US), Fred L <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Donald Eastlake <[email protected]>; manet <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [manet] Re: MANET WG Charter and MANET Internetworking
> >
> > >> and that it cannot renumber at that point?
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > So, MANET-wide renumbering is possible but would be an onerous task
> >
> > Ok, that makes sense, thanks.
> >
> > > There have been many decades of investigation into MANET use cases
> > > (disaster relief, manned/unmanned vehicular communications, tactical
> > > military, many others) and they all have the commonality that a MANET
> > > can form based on an arbitrary collection of nodes coming together in
> > > a common operating region to spontaneously form a multi-hop connected
> > > network even outside of the presence of supporting Internet infrastructure.
> >
> > I'd appreciate references, if you have them.
> >
> > -- Juliusz
> 
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