RE: [MIP-QOS] MIP QoS requirements

[marc.greis@nokia.com]

Phil,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Phil Roberts [mailto:PRoberts@MEGISTO.com]
> Sent: 18 April, 2001 11:37 AM

> It's probably worthwhile thinking about which requirements we're
discussing
> are MIP specific.  The AAA requirements draft has items which are not MIP
> specific, but not a lot.  This work should stay focused on requirements
> which are closely coupled to MIP and its network model.

I totally agree with you. We should definitely stick to MIP-related
requirements and not repeat fairly well-known requirements for QoS
mechanisms (or for any kind of protocol design for that matter) like
scalability. While it does not really hurt to restate requirements like
scalability, I think we get a more focussed discussion (and more focussed
results) if we omit these general requirements.

> Wireless is obviously an area in which this will be used, but MIP has
> managed to avoid being coupled too much to wireless so far and perhaps it
> would be worthwhile decoupling this as much as possible. Perhaps there
will
> be a separate effort on QoS characteristics of particular links.

I again agree with you. We may want to state very general requirements
related to wireless links (Perhaps like efficient coding of messages to
preserve wireless bandwidth? This may again be a general requirement instead
of a MIP requirement), but we shouldn't really delve into access-specific
requirements.

Anyway, I think these two points that Phil brought up should help to limit
the problem space, which should increase the efficiency in our discussions.

Marc