[802SEC] FW: [New-work] WG Review: Multihoming and Mobile Nodes in IPv6 (monami6)

["Congdon, Paul T (ProCurve)" <paul.congdon@HP.COM>]

802 Task Group Chairs,

The following announcement of new work in the IETF may be of interest to
your Task Group member.  Please forward as appropriate.

Paul 

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Subject: [New-work] WG Review: Multihoming and Mobile Nodes in IPv6
(monami6)

A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Internet Area. The
IESG has not made any determination as yet. The following draft charter
was submitted, and is provided for informational purposes only. Please
send your comments to the IESG mailing list (iesg@ietf.org) by September
28.

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Multihoming and Mobile Nodes in IPv6 (monami6)
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Current Status: Proposed Working Group

Chairs:
TBD

Responsible AD:
Margaret Wasserman <margaret@thingmagic.com>

Mailing Lists:
List: monami6@ietf.org
Subscribe: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/monami6
HTTP Archives:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/monami6/current/index.html
FTP Archives: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf-mail-archive/monami6

Additional Web Page:
http://www.nautilus6.org/ietf/

Description:

There is currently rapid development in the area of new wireless
standards (802.11*, 802.16, 802.20, UMTS, Bluetooth and others). At the
same time, terminals which have radio and protocol support for two,
three or even more standards are appearing. This opens the possibility
of using multiple access types simultaneously, with each access used to
transport the traffic for which it is most appropriate. For instance, an
intermittent, but high-bandwidth access type might be used for file
transfers (e.g., music download) while a low-bandwidth, high reliability
access might simultaneously be used for a voice call.

In the meantime, IP-level mobility support protocols such as Mobile
IPv6 (RFC 3775) and NEMO Basic Support (RFC 3963) have been conceived by
the IETF to support handoffs for IPv6 mobile hosts and routers,
respectively.

However, these protocols do not today provide standardised support for
simultaneous differentiated use of multiple access technologies,
although several proposals exist for such support, and some of them have
been implemented and tested.

When a mobile host/router uses multiple network interfaces
simultaneously, or when multiple prefixes are available on a single
network interface, the mobile host/router would end up with multiple
Care-of Addresses (CoAs). In addition, the Home Agent might be attached
to multiple network interfaces, or to a single network interface with
multiple prefixes, hence resulting in the option to use multiple IP
addresses for the Home Agent. This could result in the possibility of
using a multitude of bi-directional tunnels between pairs of {Home Agent
address, CoA} and a number of associated issues:
establishment, selection and modification of multiple simultaneous
tunnels. Some of the issues are very specific to mobility and are
generally applicable to both mobile hosts and mobile routers using
Mobile IPv6 and NEMO Basic Support respectively. Some of these issues
can be resolved with relatively small and straight-forward changes to
Mobile IPv6 and NEMO Basic Support (e.g. multiple CoAs registration).

The objective of the Monami6 WG is to produce a clear problem statement
and to produce standard track specifications to the straight-forward
problems associated with the simultaneous use of multiple addresses for
either mobile hosts using Mobile IPv6 or mobile routers using NEMO Basic
Support and their variants (FMIPv6, HMIPv6, etc). Where the effects of
having multiple prefixes on a single interface is identical to the
effects of having multiple interfaces each with a single prefix, Monami6
will consider a generalized approach to cater for multiple prefixes
available to a mobile host/router. Once this is done, the WG might
re-charter in order to work on more generic issues that prevent to take
advantage of the multiple CoAs and HoAs available to mobile nodes and
routers.

The WG will not work on tunnel selection based on dynamic discovery of
tunnel characteristics, but will assume that it is given by policy or
other mechanisms external to the Monami6 work. In particular, the WG
will consider that a tunnel is alive as long as BU/BACK can be exchanged
with the corresponding peer. In addition, local information, such as an
interface went down, can be used to quickly detect failure of tunnel(s).

WG Deliverables:

- A document explaining the needs and the design goals for mobile hosts
and mobile routers using multiple global addresses on its interface(s).
[Informational]

- An analysis document explaining what are the limitations for mobile
hosts using multiple simultaneous Care-of Addresses and Home Agent
addresses using Mobile IPv6, whether issues are specific to Mobile IPv6
or not [Informational].

- A "MCoA" solution to register multiple Care-of Addresses for a given
home address [Standard Track].

- A "Flow/binding policies exchange" solution for an exchange of
policies from the mobile host/router to the Home Agent and from the Home
Agent to the mobile host/router influencing the choice of the interface
[Standard Track].


Goals and Milestones:

APR 06 Submit Motivations and Goals to IESG APR 06 Submit Analysis of
the use of Multiple Simultaneous Care-of Addresses and Home Agents in
Mobile IPv6 APR 06 Submit Multiple CoA Registration to IESG DEC 06
Submit Flow/binding policies exchange to IESG



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