Table of Contents

1. Introduction

• 1.1. Design goals
• 1.2. Architecture Summary
• 1.3. Protocol Stack

2. Conventions used in this document

3. MobilityFirst Network Protocol (Kiran)
   • 3.1. Design Principles
   • 3.2. Reliable Hop-by-Hop Block Transport
   • 3.3. Dynamic Name Resolution
     • 3.3.1. Early Binding
   • 3.3.2. Late Binding
   • 3.4. Hybrid Name-Address Routing
     • 3.4.1. Network name: GUID
     • 3.4.2. Network Address: Locator
     • 3.4.3. Multi-Homed Entities and Groups
   • 3.5. In-Network Delivery Services
   • 3.6. Service-Oriented Routing Header
   • 3.6.1. Service Header Extension

4. Name Certification Services (Jun, Ray?)
   • 4.1. Service API
   • 4.2. Protocol
   • 4.3. GUID Generation
     • 4.3.1. Identity-based GUID Generation
     • 4.3.2. User-Generated GUID
   • 4.4. Security Considerations (Wade, Janne?)

5. Global Name Resolution Service (GNRS) (Akash, Tam)
   • 5.1. Service Interface
     • 5.1.1. Insert (and Update) GUID-to-Locator Mapping
     • 5.1.2. Query Locator(s) for a GUID
   • 5.2. GNRS Protocol
     • 5.2.1. Hierarchical Organization
     • 5.2.2. Security Considerations (Wade, Janne?)
   • 5.3. Scale and Performance Considerations
   • 5.4. Realization 1: Single-Hop In-Network Hashing
   • 5.5. Realization 2: Distributed Name Resolution Service – Arun’s Scheme (Arun?)

6. Generalized Edge-Aware Routing (Tam, Kiran, Ray)
   • 6.1. Network Organization: Networks, Sub-Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networks
     • 6.1.1. V-Nodes
     • 6.1.2. Limitations of Present Protocols and Goals for Future Internet
   • 6.2. Inter-Domain Routing Protocol
     • 6.2.1. Telescoped Dissemination of Path Information
     • 6.2.2. Morley's Scheme (Morley?)
   • 6.3. Intra-Domain (Edge) Routing: Generalized Storage Aware Routing (GSTAR)
   • 6.4. Scalable Multicast Using Heuristic Forwarding
   • 6.5. Ad-Hoc Networks
   • 6.6. Stability Considerations
   • 6.7. Security Considerations (Wade, Janne?)
     • 6.7.1. Secure Routing Exchanges

7. Network Management (Kiran, Suman, Jim?)
   • 7.1. Design Principles
   • 7.2. Architecture
   • 7.3. Interfaces To Access Network State
   • 7.4. Roaming and Host (or Client) Management (AAA)
   • 7.5. Fault Tolerance Considerations
   • 7.6. Security Considerations (Wade, Janne?)

8. Compute Plane and Value Added Services (Yang, Xiaowei, Kiran)
   • 8.1. Extensible Network Service Architecture
   • 8.2. Service API
   • 8.3. Security Considerations
   • 8.4. Sample Services

9. MF Use Case 1: Content a First Class Network Entity (Kiran, Feixiong, Yanyong)
   • 9.1. Content Naming, Publishing and Discovery
   • 9.2. Content Retrieval Protocol
     • 9.2.1. Security Considerations (Wade, Janne?)
   • 9.3. In-Network Caching
   • 9.4. Scalability and Performance Considerations

10. MF Use Case 2: M2M and Sensor Application Support (Jun Li)
    • 10.1. Naming Considerations
    • 10.2. End-point Resource Considerations and Function Offloading

11. MF Use Case 3: Support for Context Applications (John, Jun Li, Rich Martin)
    • 11.1. What constitutes a context?
    • 11.2. Representing Contexts in MobilityFirst
    • 11.3. Component Architecture
    • 11.4. End-to-End Protocol

12. Discussion of Open Issues

13. Conclusions

14. References
    • 14.1. Normative References
    • 14.2. Informative References
15. Acknowledgments

Appendix A. MobilityFirst Packet Header Definitions

• A.1. Service Header Extensions for Common Services
• A.2. Hexadecimal SID Values for Proposed Services