Hi Gabe,
Thanks for the update. See below. > Here's another preliminary version of the doc: > > http://www.geocities.com/gabriel_montenegro_2000/draft-ietf-6lowpan-format-00b.h tm > http://www.geocities.com/gabriel_montenegro_2000/draft-ietf-6lowpan-format-00b.t xt > > Please look it over, specially as related to the changes: > I'll do. But will not have time before the draft cut-off deadline. > > Are we re-thinking of IPv6-address format ( the low 64bit part) as well ? > > fe80:0:0:<pan-id>::<16bit-addr>? > > ah, i see. you're talking about the interface identifier (IID) format based on > the link-layer address. yes, that's one of the things that an ip-over-foo > is expected to specify. we already did for the 64-bit format. for the > 16-bit 15.4 link-layer format, your suggestion is the simplest, yes. > we're already suggesting adding a <pan-id> to a /48 to obtain a prefix identifier > so this would play into that as well. but for IIDs we can actually mandate > the above format. going through the draft and adding support for short bit > addresses is still on the TODO list, hopefully we can do it before the cut-off. > great! Thanks. > > Currently it says 'Final destination field' - I suppose, it's going to change > > to 'Final Destination header' or alike? > > If we add source link-layer address as well, then I'd really like to see > > a suggestion for header compression in case of 64bit addresses, even though > > IETF charter may not allow to specify IEEE address format. Do you think, it > > might be something that should be brought up at the IEEE meetings? > > not sure what you mean here. I was thinking of using some formating scheme in 64bit address format- especially in the higher 48bit part - a crude example: <higher 32bit format>:<16bit-otherid><16bit hardware-id>. Having a formatting scheme may help compressing the 64bit address into a 32bit address - thus we can accomodate both originator and final destination address into the 64bit address space. -Samita _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan
