Michael,

Cool! Some editorial remarks:

OLD
extended beacon
NEW
enhanced beacon

Could the draft be generic enough to allow for RPL DIOs to be carried in an
EB?



On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> to reply to myself
>
> Michael Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
>     > This will contain a copy of the 16-byte DODAGID so that a very sleepy
>     > node returning to operation would be able to identify which beacon
>     > belongs to which network.  A joining node will have no idea which
>     > DODAGID it wants, and a maliciously sent beacon could have any manner
>     > is superfuge here.  Nodes which have already joined the network
> SHOULD
>     > be able to authenticate the beacons.  However, this is one of the
>     > larger objects in the 56 bytes that I describe, and maybe it is
>     > excessive to store so many bytes here.
>
> I realized today that the RA probably also needs to carry the ABRO to be
> useful to secured hosts.  Such hosts will still have to unicast as RS to
> get
> the PIO from a router.  I'm sure that we don't want to put the PIO into an
> unencrypted EB/RA.
>
> The ARBO has the 6LBR address which is often, but not always the same as
> the
> DODAGID.   It can equally well be used to identify the network.
>
>     > I want to attempt to apply RFC7400 (GHC) to this, the savings will be
>     > probably on the order of ten bytes of zeroes.
>
> So far, the savings I got with GHC was 4 bytes.  I posted an update to the
> git repo.  (     https://github.com/ietf-roll/6lo-ra-in-ie )
>
>
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