[manet] Re: I-D Action: draft-templin-6man-mla-32.txt

Old participants have moved on. If they were really interested they’d make occasional appearances (such as I do). If they are lurking, and see a reason to chip in, great. But you can’t rely on anything from them - and most especially you can’t require anything from them. People are here either because they are interested, and interests move on (often when they get their PhD) or it’s their job, and employers move on too (mine did).

> On 17 Mar 2026, at 09:26, Abdussalam Baryun <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Fred,
> 
> Thanks for your presentation in the 125 meeting, I am interested in this draft, and did not complete my reply comment on this draft, but I think this draft is facing an important issue that the old participants in this WG did not write drafts on, and if I am wrong please refer me with some old drafts.
> 
> I think it is important that we get feedback from old participants if they discussed these issues or not.
> 
> thanking you,
> 
> AB
> 
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM Templin (US), Fred L <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Hi, here is a draft that proposes a new IPv6 address type for use in Ad Hoc Networks. The Multilink-Local Address (MLA) has a scope greater than link-local (LLA) but lesser than other Globally Unique (GUA) address types. IPv6 packets with MLA source and/or destination addresses may be routable within a limited domain (such as a virtual overlay) but may not be globally routable to other networks. MLAs are guaranteed globally unique so that no conflicts should arise when multiple nodes inject their MLAs into a common MANET routing region. MLAs use the same specification as for the RFC9374 HHIT/DET construct. Please review and comment on the list.
>> 
>> Fred Templin
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
>> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2026 8:41 AM
>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> Subject: I-D Action: draft-templin-6man-mla-32.txt
>> 
>> Internet-Draft draft-templin-6man-mla-32.txt is now available.
>> 
>>    Title:   IPv6 Addresses for Ad Hoc Networks
>>    Author:  Fred L. Templin
>>    Name:    draft-templin-6man-mla-32.txt
>>    Pages:   12
>>    Dates:   2026-02-16
>> 
>> Abstract:
>> 
>>    Ad Hoc networks present an IPv6 addressing challenge due to the
>>    undetermined neighborhood properties of their interfaces.  IPv6 nodes
>>    must assign locally-unique and topology-independent IPv6 addresses
>>    when topology-oriented IPv6 address delegation services are either
>>    absent or only intermittently available.  This document introduces a
>>    new IPv6 address type (termed the "Multilink Local Address (MLA)")
>>    that nodes can autonomously assign to interfaces to support Ad Hoc
>>    network operations.
>> 
>> The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-6man-mla/
>> 
>> There is also an HTMLized version available at:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-templin-6man-mla-32
>> 
>> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>> https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-templin-6man-mla-32
>> 
>> Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
>> rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts
>> 
>> 
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