Hi Benjamin,

Just speculating here:

In RPL itself, you could use "IP addresses" made up from MAC addresses as IIDs.
For the RPL-routed traffic, you could use 6LoRH-style encapsulation (RFC 8138), 
which also would fit a mesh-under approach very well.
So I think the total amount of messages that have to be designed/redesigned to 
make RPL applicable to mesh-under is very low; you’d mainly need a few new code 
points to make sure router-over RPL/traffic and mesh-under RPL/traffic are not 
confused.

But this also raises the question why you want to go mesh-under, if in the end 
everything looks so similar to route-over.

Grüße, Carsten


> On Apr 12, 2017, at 06:33, Benjamin Damm <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks, I'm new here, so please steer me straight if this is not the right 
> forum.
> 
> Is there any work under way that looks at how to use the ROLL-RPL data 
> structures, algorithm, and messages, in a mesh-under network?  The routing in 
> a mesh-under network can be very similar to ROLL-RPL but just one layer down. 
>  Using similar but slightly smaller messages, adjusted for link-level 
> identifiers instead of IP-level identifiers (and of course not supporting 
> IPv6 features in the routing layer) seems like it would be possible, so I'm 
> searching to anyone or any document that might have already led the way for 
> this kind of mapping.
> 
> Regards,
> -Ben
> 
> 
> Benjamin Damm
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