2.3.17 Network Mobility (nemo)

NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 66th IETF Meeting in Montreal, Quebec Canada. It may now be out-of-date.
In addition to this official charter maintained by the IETF Secretariat, there is additional information about this working group on the Web at:

       Additional NEMO Web Page

Last Modified: 2006-03-30

Chair(s):

TJ Kniveton <tj@kniveton.com>
Thierry Ernst <thierry.ernst@inria.fr>

Internet Area Director(s):

Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@piuha.net>
Mark Townsley <townsley@cisco.com>

Internet Area Advisor:

Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@piuha.net>

Technical Advisor(s):

Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>

Mailing Lists:

General Discussion: nemo@ietf.org
To Subscribe: nemo-request@ietf.org
Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/nemo/index.html

Description of Working Group:

The NEMO Working Group is concerned with managing the mobility of an
entire network, which changes, as a unit, its point of attachment to
the Internet and thus its reachability in the topology. The mobile
network includes one or more mobile routers (MRs) which connect it to
the global Internet.

A mobile network is assumed to be a leaf network, i.e. it will not
carry transit traffic. However,it could be multihomed, either with a
single MR that has multiple attachments to the internet, or by using
multiple MRs that attach the mobile network to the Internet.

Initially,the WG will assume that none of the nodes behind the MR will
be aware of the network's mobility, thus the network's movement needs
to be completely transparent to the nodes inside the mobile
network. This assumption will be made to accomodate nodes inside the
network that are not generally aware of mobility.

A basic approach for network mobility support is for each Mobile
Router to have a Home Agent, and use bidirectional tunneling between
the MR and HA to preserve session continuity while the MR moves. The
MR will acquire a Care-of-address from its attachment point much like
what is done for Mobile Nodes using Mobile IP. This approach allows
nesting of mobile networks, since each MR will appear to its
attachment point as a single node.

The WG will take a stepwise approach by standardizing some basic
support mechanisms based on the bidirectional tunneling approach, and
at the same time study the possible approaches and issues with
providing more optimal routing than can be had with (potentially
nested) tunneling. However, the WG is not chartered to actually
standardize a solution to such route optimization for mobile networks
at this point in time.

The WG will work on:

- A threat analysis and security solution for the basic problem
(tunneling between HA and MR)

- A solution to the basic problem for both IPv4 and IPv6. The solution
will allow all nodes in the mobile network to be reachable via
permanent IP addresses, as well as maintain ongoing sessions as the MR
changes its point of attachment within the topology. This will be done
by maintaining a bidirectional tunnel between the MR and its Home
Agent. The WG will investigate reusing the existing Mobile IPv6
mechanisms for the tunnel management, or extend it if deemed
necessary.

- An informational document which specifies a detailed problem
statement for route optimization and looks at various approaches to
solving this problem. This document will look into the issues and
tradeoffs involved in making the network's movement visible to some
nodes, by optionally making them "NEMO aware". The interaction between
route optimization and IP routing will also be described in this
document. Furthermore, security considerations for the various
approaches will also be considered.

The WG will:

- Ensure that solutions will scale and function for the different
mobile network configurations, without requiring changes to
Correspondent Nodes in the Internet. All solutions will aim at
preserving route aggregation within the Internet and will satisfy an
acceptable level of security (a thorough survey of new threats and an
analysis of their severity will be conducted)

- Ensure that various mechanisms defined within other IETF WGs will be
useful for mobile networks. To achieve this, the NEMO WG will interact
with other WGs when needed, and may place requirements on the
protocols developed by those WGs.

The WG will not:

- consider routing issues inside the mobile network. Existing routing
protocols (including MANET protocols) can be used to solve these
problems.

Goals and Milestones:

Done  Submit terminology and requirements documents (for Basic support).
Done  Submit NEMO Basic Support to IESG
Done  Submit WG draft -00 on Threat Analysis and Security Requirements for NEMO.
Done  Submit WG draft -00 on Multihoming Problem Statement
Done  Submit WG draft -00 on NEMO Basic Support Usages
Done  Submit WG draft -00 on Prefix Delegation for NEMO
Done  Submit WG draft -00 on MIB for NEMO Basic Support
Aug 2005  Submit Terminology as Informational to IESG
Aug 2005  Submit Goals and Requirements as Informational to IESG
Aug 2005  Submit WG draft -00 on Analysis of the Solution Space for Route Optimization
Nov 2005  Shut down or recharter the WG to solve route optimization

Internet-Drafts:

  • draft-ietf-nemo-home-network-models-06.txt
  • draft-ietf-nemo-multihoming-issues-06.txt
  • draft-ietf-nemo-mib-02.txt
  • draft-ietf-nemo-ro-problem-statement-03.txt
  • draft-ietf-nemo-dhcpv6-pd-02.txt
  • draft-ietf-nemo-ro-space-analysis-03.txt
  • draft-ietf-nemo-v4-base-01.txt

    Request For Comments:

    RFCStatusTitle
    RFC3963 Standard Network Mobility (NEMO) Basic Support Protocol

    Meeting Minutes


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