Subject: RE: [Ans-research] The Charter

From: Scott Corson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 04:58:58 -0400

Well... in my view most of the *quantitative* types of simulation
studies/work that was underway within MANET should be moved here...
regardless of network size. 

MANET should really focus on engineering-oriented packet header/protocol
option-type discussions... the nuts and bolts required to get some basic
proactive and reactive functionality into IETF standards.  Once that is
done, other MANET protocol work can be considered (mcast, etc).  But the
group has thus far shown little ability to get to consensus, and that needs
to be remedied, and I don't believe further simulation studies will help
MANET make progress there.

-Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anders Nilsson [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:34 AM
> To: Scott Corson; ANS research
> Subject: Re: [Ans-research] The Charter
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Scott Corson wrote
> 
> >The MANET WG already took the path of quantitative protocol 
> bakeoff in its
> >early years (research-like phase).  Things were learned, but 
> the approach
> >led to little engineering consensus.  That type of work is 
> now in the ANS
> >scope of activities.
> >
> >  
> >
> Just a quick question about your last statement. Does this mean that 
> research related questions about ad hoc networks is within 
> the scope of 
> ANS, even though they may not apply to scalability directly? That is, 
> research realted issues that might relate to ad hoc networks of a 
> smaller scale?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Anders
> 
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