Mark, There are two issues that I would like to see clarified. They are both related to connecting 6lowpan networks with backbone IPv6 networks better than we can do it now. In my opinion this is the "killer" feature of 6lowpan. Including these in some future re-charter would be too late.
1. In my opinion the interconnection of 6lowpan and backbone networks using ND techniques along with whiteboarding are important and worth including into the standard track. “6lowpan Bootstrapping and 6lowpan IPv6 ND Optimizations” should include definition of how to do proxy-ND over BbRs? In other words to include some of the ideas from draft-thubert-6lowpan-backbone-router. I would like to propose expanding the text of that section to: ... will define how to bootstrap a 6lowpan network and explore ND optimizations such as reusing the 802.15.4 network structure (use the coordinators), the use of backbone routers, and obviate multicast by having devices talk to coordinators without creating a single point-of-failure, and changing the IPv6 ND multicast semantics. 2. I would also like to see further improvements to RFC4944, namely draft-hui-6lowpan-hc as a start. I don't see a place for this at all in the current charter. It can surely be done in a way sufficiently backward compatible with the current RFC. Shall a separate WG item exist for this? Otherwise the charter has my full support. - Zach Mark Townsley wrote: > > 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 > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan -- Zach Shelby | Head of Research | +358 40 7796297 Sensinode Ltd. www.sensinode.com _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan
