WEIRD Hot Topic: Wireless Chris Burke WEIRD Working Group

What WEIRD Does Look for inter-Area relationships among working groups and BOFs Write articles describing these relationships using rich media Publish these articles as web pages WEIRD Does Not Author I-Ds or RFCs, Except To Archive Our Work

WEIRD Wireless Article U.S. Federal Networking Council resolution, October , defines the Internet in terms of: –Globally unique address space –Support for TCP/IP communications –Enabling of high level services Systems that don’t do this are not “the Internet” “Wireless Internet” is just that part of the Internet that sends data over wireless links

IETF Wireless Activities Currently 100+ IETF Working Groups At least 60 of these are doing work that matters to parties working on “wireless internet” IETF should expect increasing wireless community activity in these WGs

Wireless-Relevant WGs: Partial List This list does not include IRTF RGs!

Thoughts... Long and valuable history of “pre-internet” wireless engineering of applications solving problems like mobility, scale, location, real-time transport Don’t balkanize wireless - integrate wireless issues into existing working groups for transparency A few new working groups will be necessary - PILC and ROHP are good examples

Some (More or Less) Unique Challenges of Wireless Bandwidth scarcity No wires = your data everywhere Unpredictable and frequent data link intermittency Mobility + Security + QoS All At Once Government Regulation High Latency Hosts with limited battery, CPU, memory, user interface Charging Model Legacy Architectural and Policy Boundaries Huge / rapidly growing user base and legacy applications

The WEIRD WG Web Elucidation of Internet Related Developments User Services Area Director: April Marine Chair: Chris Burke Discussion List: To Subscribe: Send “subscribe” to Meets 1PM Thursday in Hall B