Dear 6loers,

During the presentation of the NSA document at the last meeting, Erik did raise 
the question on whether NSA is in the scope of the 6lo charter, which does not 
include routing.
The question is meaningful since the document uses the term "routing" in it.
However, we (the authors) believe the document belongs here.
NSA is basically an addressing technology that enables nearly stateless 
forwarding (aka, does not need routing mechanism on top).
Despite the very specific deployability scope, it might happens that some 
temporary topology changes arise. To cope with this situation, what is needed 
is to install temporary forwarding rules, so to guarantee connectivity at the 
price of some limited state. There is no actual routing exchange, meaning there 
is no explicit routing messages of any type floating around. May be the term 
"routing" is a bit misleading in such scenario and we will replace it with 
"forwarding rule" in the next revision of the document and further clarify it.

Does this address the concern about NSA in scope of 6lo?

Ciao

Luigi Iannone (on behalf of all authors)

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