Strawman Recharter Nov 12, 2002

Basic Problem “The purpose of this working group is to standardize IP routing protocol functionality suitable for wireless application within routing systems with dynamic topologies. The design assumption is that the wireless links connecting routers within a MANET may be random and dynamic, due to motion or other factors; thus, the network topology may change rapidly and unpredictably.”

Strawman Way Forward: PART 1 Under a revised charter, the WG will operate under a reduced scope by targeting the promotion of a number of core routing protocol specifications to EXPERIMENTAL RFC status (i.e., AODV, DSR, OLSR and TBRPF) Some maturity of understanding and implementation exists with each of these protocols, yet more operational experimentation experience is seen as desirable. Overall, these protocols provide a basic set of MANET capabilities covering both reactive and proactive design spaces.”

Way Forward PART 2: Scoped Engineering Phase ” With this experimental base established, the WG will move on to design and develop MANET common group engineered routing specification(s) and introduce these to the Internet Standards track. Lessons learned from existing proposals will provide useful design input, but the target for this effort is a group engineering effort not a recompilation of an existing approach. “

Strawman Reduced Scope ” The near term design goals of the WG are to support small-to- medium sized MANET network areas scaling up to approximately one hundred nodes. Provided progress is made on the core unicast standards, ancillary work may be considered by the WG including development of specifications and guidelines to support additional functionality, as necessary, for purposes such as MANET-related address configuration/management, Internet gateway functions, MANET-wide broadcast (flooding) or multicast services. This working group will work closely with the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) groups on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (subgroup?) for tracking and considering any mature developments from the related research community. ”

Strawman Milestones Done: Produce Design Considerations RFC Done: Submit I-D(s) of Proposed Protocols Done: Evolve I-D proposals and explore issues Done: Promote implementations and testing of proposed I-Ds Present: Restructure WG to be more narrowly focused, split off important related IRTF work JAN 2003: Progress Core Reactive Protocol(s) Experimental RFC status JAN 2003: Revisit WG Goals and problem statement(s) MAR 2003: Progress Core Proactive Protocol(s) to Experimental RFC status JUN 2003: Focused MANET WG Problem Statement(s) and Scoped Engineering Goals