Hi Mark: I think we need a work item (usually implicit) around the concept of improving existing WG RFCs. RFC 4944 can be improved in several aspects:
- A major one is a better fit with ISA100.11a. Getting ISA100.11a to conform to 6LoWPAN would be a major win, but is certainly not a given. At the moment, the ISA100.11a documents expose discrepencies with RFC 4944 that http://www.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hui-6lowpan-hc resolve for the most part. - The issue of fragmentation. Applying RFC 4944 over a multihop radio mesh exposes the network to congestion collapse, as described in http://www.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thubert-6lowpan-simple-fragment-rec overy . I think that the WG should dedicate some bandwitdth to provide additional functions that would improve the LoWPAN operation WRT flow control and recovery of fragments. Another aspect of ISA100.11a is the concept of a backbone router. It would be appropriate that the IETF comes up with a proposal to implement the concept in the IPv6 world. This partially falls under the first work item on ND but might also include ND proxy over the backbone which is a stretch to the work item. More in http://www.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thubert-6lowpan-backbone-router. What do you think? Pascal >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Townsley >(townsley) >Sent: jeudi 15 mai 2008 23:02 >To: 6lowpan@ietf.org >Subject: [6lowpan] New charter for 6lowpan > > >I'd like to ask the group one final time for comments on the proposed >new charter. I've also asked the ROLL WG chairs to comment. > >As I said before, soon after the format document was published, there is >nothing stopping the WG from discussing and working on new and existing >items at this time. In fact, activity helps us to decide what should be >in and out of the charter. Please do not construe not having a charter >in place as a reason not to update drafts, or discuss topics that need >to be discussed. Just as when we have BoF's and mailing lists before >creating a new WG, it is good to have WG meetings and on-lists >discussions when creating new WG charters. > >- Mark > > > > _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list 6lowpan@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan
