That would be the easy one for sure but we'd lose the fact that the node 
attaches to a RPL network, even if it does not know.
Cheers,
Pascal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carsten Bormann [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: lundi 26 février 2018 18:49
> To: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <[email protected]>
> Cc: Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks <[email protected]>;
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [6lo] [Roll] A bit for ROLL
> 
> On Feb 26, 2018, at 18:22, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes Carsten,
> >
> > I agree there's a confusion that we need to clean up on the ROLL side. My
> definition of leaf echoes yours from RFC 6550. A leaf still understands RPL.
> > But over time people started using the term as a plain host attached to a
> RPL router but that does not know about RPL at all.
> 
> They should read RFC 6550 then :-)
> (Maybe calling them “leaves” in RFC6550 wasn’t so bright, but that’s water
> under the bridge.)
> 
> > This is why in my draft I called them "unaware leaves" but in fact they are
> plain hosts. I’d be happy with a better term.
> 
> I think “host” is the best term we have for non-router nodes in the IETF.
> 
> Grüße, Carsten

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