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[moonv6] Technical Volunteers Needed for 2 months Disaster Response Wireless and MESH Networks et al.

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From: Bound, Jim (Jim.Bound@hp.com)
Date: 02/27/06


NAv6TF and Moonv6 Team,

See attached Northcom Document. We need if possible to supply our new important partner W2COG www.w2cog.org (you all have met Chris Gunderson in cyber space) with some mobility, security, wireless, et al expertise not necessarily just IPv6. As an IPv6 Forum and NAv6TF we have over 6 years not only developed core technical expertise on IPv6 but also Routing, Mobility, Security, MESH/Ad Hoc Nets, etc from within our Subject Matter Expert (SME) ranks. This would dove tail well with our CAv6TF subchapter www.cav6tf.org lead on MetroNet6 http://www.cav6tf.org/html/metronet6.php project. I don't want to cannibalize MetroNet6, but the Northcom statement of work is so close to the of MetroNet6 it is very congruent. Maybe we can get two for one from our work. We clearly would learn a hell of a lot. Also see recent slides from Tom Worden California OES Geof Lambert and George Usi are working with for MetroNet6. Chris, Brett Thorson, and I are having lunch tomorrow to look at the long term tasks in this space for the partnership and also this will be important to the IPv6 Forum via Latif on a world wide scale and we are not developing strong relationships for example with the WIMAX forum.

Also a similar effort is underway in NCOIC www.ncoic.org called volunteer Complex Humanitarian Disaster (CHD) project looking at similar SOW and Technical Analysis from Katrina, Tsunami, and 911. This is being led by one Mr. Paul Magione I have now known for some time. Yanick Pouffary and I have committed to help on that effort and Dave Green to some degree from our ranks here within NCOIC.

So if you can help in this space please send me mail and I will get you connected. It would be review and technical analysis type work and then completing a report per the attached same as what we are to do for MetroNet6 and for CHD above. Then I will connect you with Mr. Aaron Budgor from W2COG who is the lead for Northcom.

Also note a true volunteer group that straddles helping both Military and our Civil Sector is the Naval Post Graduate School (NPS) http://www.nps.edu/ who helped at Tsunami and Katrina. NPS Mr. Rex Buddenberg and Mr. Brian Steckler are copied here too. Kudos to these folks I have seen some of their reports it is quite amazing.

As we move forward here please differentiate MESH Network from Ad Hoc Network, and an Ad Hoc Network is not always mobile, thus MANET does not always apply. Also for radio communications not all of us believe that next hop communications is always the best choice if base stations can be provided with each radio node, and with IPv6 suggested extensions to Neighbor Discovery the entire idea of routing between radio nodes is suspect for analysis too. The vision is 802.11 (with support for connect to 802.15) ---> 802.16 ----) Satcom/802.20/22 and the base principle for MetroNet6. And last but not least the vendor agendas in this space are phenomenal and out of control as there is no clear market leader so we have to watch ALL VENDORs for their agenda when doing this work. Also the computer network infrastructure services for virtualization, high availability, Grid services, etc need to be part of what is available to the MESH Network. One thing is for sure what exists today is unacceptable and can cause lives to be lost and that is not good, whether it be warfighters, policeman, fireman, doctors, or EMS personnel. Lastly as you all have seen it is critical that we now begin to look at the principles of net centricity for NGN deployment and for this space that means the following essentially: connectivity, interoperability, discovery, security, and all end-to-end. Our bias here in NAv6TF is that this is not possible with IPv4 plumbing but requires IPv6 plumbing underneath, but reality is we need to provide a path for that end-to-end restoration and treat IPv4 as legacy to introduce IPv6 for the topics previously mentioned. That is all possible with emerging projects as discussed here.

I know your maxed, I know your tired, but we need you to help, no one else will except for money and you all know what that means. If we can get the studies to be done from non-profit and vendor-neutral view that gives hope to an honoroable open solution and there clearly will be money to be made after all these initial studies and plenty for all to compete out of the NAv6TF etc. Look at it this way. For just 25 hours of your time in March and April as volunteer could be one small part for tomorrow to save a soldiers or fireman's life by just helping to educate and review as a volunteer. There is no travel required is my understanding. And the work from this will apply directly to the WiFi Networks needed that can be done inexpensively for children's schools for our digital divide efforts too.

Thanks for your considerations and support, /jim
Chair NAv6TF www.nav6tf.org
CTO IPv6 Forum www.ipv6fourm.org

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