[manet] Re: draft-dearlove-manet-olsrv2-responsive-03

On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 11:40 AM Christopher Dearlove <
[email protected]> wrote:

> And as I said, but also saying more:
>
> (a) Multiple drafts is standard operating practice in RFCs. I used OSPF as
> an example, but I doubt there are many widely used non-trivial protocols
> that are defined in single documents.
>

one doc is easier for the internet community to follow up this standard and
easier to use.


>
> (b) Having thought more, I don’t think it is practical. It was a WG
> requirement that NHDP was separated from OLSRv2 so the firmer could be used
> separate from the latter. Once that is done, we have a lot of documents
> (jitter, time TLV, baseline security) that apply to both and thus to avoid
> repetition need themselves to be separate. And documents like 7859 (number
> from memory) that I an example of security that is separate for technical
> and political reasons (the method used may date - or already be dated).
>

Yes that separation was ok for NHDP_doc and packetbb_doc, because there was
an approach by this WG to have same manet_interface/manet_packet for both
OLSR and AODV, however, IMHO the old participants failed to complete the
AODV or failed to make the separation having its main benefit for other
protocols.


> (c) Even if there were some value in doing what combining is possible,
> there’s no one I can see with the expertise and inclination (or funding) to
> do it.
>

IMHO we in IETF MANET WG will not need now OLSRv2_expertise but we mostly
will need an implementation that combines all updates for rfc7181, I tried
to get an implementation that was from the open source community but that
implementation did not work. So I will now start a new search for an
implementation that holds all updates or even separate, or I will need to
implement it separately starting at 7181 doc.

best regards
AB

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