Meeting minutes from the RobHC BOF, 1999-11-09
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Except from what was covered by the presentations, following the agenda,
these issues were questioned and discussed. Most of the notes below
originate from questions asked by the audience.

- To be useful for the 3GPP release 2000, "something" almost stable should
  be available in Mid-2000.

- Steven Casner: Questioned if the radio access network should not be
  modified when introducing IP, meaning that its characteristics could be
  changed.

- Question about end-to-end encryption. The conclusion was that IPSec can
  not be used with HC.

- Rosenberg & Casner: Asked how Nokia handled the case of lost FH in the
  beginning of a session.

- VJ: Noted that linear transformation between several fields could be used.

- Can ACE work on simplex links?? NO!!

- VJ: Is it a reasonable requirement to request ordered delivery between
  compressor and decompressor??

- VJ: What is the delay due to? If due to several reasons ; how is the
  distribution of the contributions?

- Deering: Why 1E-3??

- Borman: IPR in general; Nordmark: IPR not a problem really, it is up to
  the WG.

- VJ: Link-layer behavior (HDLC -> LLPC-like); Degermark: Modifications
  also needed at transport level (UDP-lite).

- Nordmark: Commented that other cellular/wireless issues could come up
  too....

- Other standardization bodies than 3GPP should be considered;
  Degermark: They are welcome......

- Robust TCP HC. It was decided that TCP should be included in WG Charter.


There was consensus about the need for IETF to work with this and a WG was
suggested (no HUM against).


COMMENT: No one talked about UDP. It makes no sense to do IP/UDP/RTP and
IP/TCP but not IP/UDP so it should probably be included also.


    // Lars-Erik Jonsson