IPv6 Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (IPWAVE): Problem Statement and Use Cases
draft-ietf-ipwave-vehicular-networking-30

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Subject: Document Action: 'IPv6 Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (IPWAVE): Problem Statement and Use Cases' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-ipwave-vehicular-networking-30.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'IPv6 Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (IPWAVE): Problem
   Statement and Use Cases'
  (draft-ietf-ipwave-vehicular-networking-30.txt) as Informational RFC

This document is the product of the IP Wireless Access in Vehicular
Environments Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Erik Kline and Éric Vyncke.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ipwave-vehicular-networking/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

    The document introduces different use cases of interest for
    IPv6-based vehicular networking for Intelligent Transportation
    Systems (ITS).  Then, it describes an example vehicular network
    architecture supporting V2V, V2I, and V2X communications as a
    baseline for further discussion about current IPv6 protocols with
    respect to IPv6 neighbor discovery, mobility management, security,
    and privacy.  Finally, some requirements for future work are offered.

Working Group Summary

    Initially, the IPWAVE WG was chartered to work on documents:
    one informational document explaining the state of the art in the
    field and describe the use cases for IPv6, and another
    informational document describing the problem statement, including
    associated security and privacy considerations.  The charter
    indicated that the working group would decide at a future point
    whether these informational documents needed to be published
    separately as RFCs or if they could be combined.  It was decided at
    the beginning of the process to combine them, without any
    controversy.

    The document has required a lot of time to progress, due to the low
    energy level of the IPWAVE WG.

    Last Call resulted in feedback about missing RPL references and
    the inclusion of reference to not-present-adopted OMNI work.

Document Quality

    The document is informational, and therefore does not include any
    protocol specification, so no implementations exist.  The document
    went through many iterations, as it originally had an academic
    flavor, and did not properly serve its purpose of identifying key
    gaps that require protocol development.  This has been improved in
    the last revisions.  Overall, the document has a good quality.

    The document has been reviewed in several occasions (more than 10) by
    several IPWAVE WG participants and external reviewers recruited by
    the WG chairs and the document editor.  None of the reviewers has
    expressed concerns with latest version of the Internet-Draft.

    The INT-DIR review performed by Pascal Thubert was especially
    detailed and the author worked to address a broad array of comments.

Personnel

    Carlos J. Bernardos is the Document Shepherd.
    Erik Kline is the responsible Area Director.

RFC Editor Note