Re: [manet] Default metric in OLSRv2

[Ulrich Herberg <ulrich.herberg at polytechnique.edu>]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Teco Boot <teco at inf-net.nl> wrote:

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It seems we all agree on recommending usage of link metrics.
This is great.

We can have endless discussions on what researchers will do.
But IETF has little influence here.
I think we shall focus on implementations for real users.
We define practical and interoperable protocols.

I'm looking forward to the updated OLSRv2 draft, which includes metrics.

I agree with Teco. Before continuing this discussion, I think it would be very helpful to write an ETX metrics draft, then to integrate the metrics draft into OLSRv2, and only *then* consider whether to explicitly mention a metric other than hop-count in the OLSRv2 draft (e.g. in the appendix, as suggested), or whether it's enough to set up the code points for different metrics.

Ulrich