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- IP Routing for Wireless/Mobile Hosts (mobileip)
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- Charter
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- Chair(s):
- Steve Deering <deering@parc.xerox.com>
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- Routing Area Director(s)
- Bob Hinden <hinden@eng.sun.com>
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- Mailing lists:
- General Discussion:mobile-ip@parc.xerox.com
- To Subscribe: mobile-ip-request@parc.xerox.com
- Archive: parcftp.xerox.com:~/pub/mobile-ip/mail-archive
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- Description of Working Group:
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- The Mobile IP Working Group is chartered to develop or adopt
- architectures and protocols to support mobility within the Internet.
- In the near-term, protocols for supporting transparent host ``roaming''
- among different subnetworks and different media (e.g., LANs, dial-up
- links, and wireless communication channels) shall be developed and
- entered into the Internet Standards track. The work is expected to
- consist mainly of new and/or revised protocols at the (inter) network
- layer, but may also include proposed modifications to higher-layer
- protocols (e.g., transport or directory). However, it shall be a
- requirement that the proposed solutions allow mobile hosts to
- interoperate with existing Internet systems.
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- Longer term, the Group may address, to the extent not covered by the
- mobile host solutions, other types of internet mobility, such as
- mobile subnets (e.g., a local network within a vehicle), or mobile
- clusters of subnets (e.g., a collection of hosts, routers, and subnets
- within a large vehicle, like a ship or spacecraft, or a collection of
- wireless, mobile routers that provide a dynamically changing internet
- topology).
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- Goals and Milestones:
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- Done Review and approve the Charter, making any changes deemed necessary.
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- Nov 92 Post an Internet-Draft documenting the Mobile Hosts protocol.
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- Mar 93 Review the Charter of the Mobile IP Working Group for additional work
- required to facilitate non-host mobility.
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- Mar 93 Submit the Mobile Host Protocol to the IESG as a Proposed Standard.
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