Juergen,
I guess that I missed your suggestions on fixes to the RFC?
Perhaps after we get this rechartering done we can take up the fixes.
I like the idea of finding a way to more efficiently transfer SNMP
messages as well as a simpler way to implement SNMP (not a full ASN.1)
geoff
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 21:46 +0100, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:45:10PM +0100, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>
> > C) Daniel has reminded us that there needs to be a management solution
> > at some point. I'm not sure that simply defining a MIB is the
> > right way to provide this (SNMPv3 on sensor nodes?). Instead, we
> > could add "management method" to the subjects of the architecture
> > document before actually creating the solution. Is that the right
> > place?
>
> [...]
>
> > 3 "6LoWPAN Architecture" already has a draft from Dave Culler, Geoff
> > Mulligan, and JP Vasseur. Any other takers? In particular, somebody
> > with a network management slant?
>
> [...]
>
> Just to let you know that I am still lurking on this list. I am not
> sure what is needed at this point in time concering management. SNMP
> can be reasonably byte efficient (and there were proposals in the past
> to make it even more efficient) but it uses a polling approach which
> may be questioned on some 6lowpan scenarios where you might want to
> save the requests and perhaps even do aggregation along the routing
> path. On the other hand, we might be able to reuse some of the IPv6
> MIBs and that might be goodness.
>
> During our 6lowpan implementation exercise, we found a few things in
> the RFC that would be nice to fix and which we have posted to this
> list (without much feedback I must say). From my perspective, I think
> there should be continued work on the 6lowpan specifications - either
> as an implementors guide or simply work towards revised specifications.
>
> And it might help to actually have interoperability tests carried out
> to see how much implementations interoperate in terms of the various
> compression schemes and fragmentation. Who would participate in some
> interoperability test at one of the upcoming IETFs?
>
> /js
>
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