Dear Gordon,
Thank you for raising this, I noticed it is also being discussed on other community lists, for instance in IETF.
RIPE NCC is not a member of ETSI, which means that at the moment we have no more information than what is in the press release and the article on the website. From that it appears to be addressing concerns which are similar to those that are given as the rationale for New IP. At the same time it appears that this work would be more focussed and limited in scope to the mobile networks.
Happy to learn if anybody in the community has more details on this proposal and the associated standardisation work.
Best,
Marco Hogewoning
External Relations, RIPE NCC
Meanwhile this is from ETSI:
ETSI LAUNCHES NEW GROUP ON NON-IP NETWORKING ADDRESSING 5G NEW SERVICES
Sophia Antipolis, 7 April 2020
ETSI is pleased to announce the creation of a new Industry Specification Group addressing Non-IP Networking (ISG NIN). The kick-off-meeting took place on 25 March and John Grant, BSI, was elected as the ISG Chair, and Kevin Smith, Vodafone, was elected as ISG Vice Chair.
With the increasing challenges placed on modern networks to support new use cases and greater connectivity, Service Providers are looking for candidate technologies that may serve their needs better than the TCP/IP-based networking used in current systems
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https://www.etsi.org/newsroom/press-releases/1749-2020-04-etsi-launches-new-group-on-non-ip-networking-addressing-5g-new-services