Proposal for new NEMO Charter
			Version: March 22, 2006


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.

For the basic NEMO support case, none of the nodes behind the MR will
be aware of the network's mobility, thus the network's movement is completely transparent to the nodes inside the mobile
network. This assumption is made to accomodate nodes inside the
network that are not generally aware of mobility.

A basic approach for network mobility support is described in the working group's NEMO Basic Support RFC. 

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:

- Completing editing working group documents that are currently in process, and submit for RFC.

- Continue working on Route Optimization and Multihoming, in order to solve the problems that are relevant to NEMO deployments. Furthermore, security considerations for the various approaches will also be considered.

  - Look into the issues and tradeoffs involved in making the network's movement visible to some mobile network nodes, by making them "NEMO aware". 

  - Address issues with base support RFC and related items, that arise during implementation and deployment.

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 for any changes introduced to the network).

The WG will not:

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

- consider general route optimization, multihoming, or other problems that are not related to the deployment and maintenance of NEMO networks.

Goals and Milestones:

Mar 2006	  	Finish draft on Threat Analysis and Security Requirements for NEMO.
Mar 2006	  	Submit Terminology as Informational to IESG
Mar 2006	  	Submit Goals and Requirements as Informational to IESG
Mar 2006	  	Submit final doc Multihoming Problem Statement
Mar 2006	  	Submit final doc on NEMO Basic Support Usages
Mar 2006	  	Submit final doc(s) on Analysis of the Solution Space for Route Optimization
Jul 2006	  	Submit final doc on MIB for NEMO Basic Support
Jul 2006	  	Submit final doc(s) on Prefix Delegation for NEMO
Aug 2006		Submit -00 draft on Route Optimization for geographically distributed HAs
Aug 2006		Submit -00 draft on MNN visibility in visited networks
Aug 2006		Submit -00 draft on (n,n,n) ingress filtering
Aug 2006		Submit final doc on IPv4 Traversal (with MIP6 working grp)
Mar 2007	  	Shut down or recharter the WG to solve further identified topics