Don,
This is great news. If you guys have any experience during your
interops that could shed light on implementation issues or your members
that can provide real world experience that might enlighten the WG we
need that. I know that Erik and Zach would like the input.
As to committing to a time-line, I'm not sure that is possible in the
IETF. Again, if there is someone from Zigbee that would commit to the
editor-ship of the ND draft, we can consider this to help expedite it.
It would be unfortunate if Zigbee had to choose an ND mechanism that
wasn't the solution coming from the IETf, but understandable that you
have time lines and commercial interests that need to be dealt with.
Personally I don't think that the ND-Simple draft is really that far
from a workable solution, but on this Carsten and I disagree.
Maybe some input from implementors in Zigbee would help.
geoff
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 18:23 -0700, Don Sturek wrote:
> Hi Carsten and Geoff,
>
>
>
> We had an interesting discussion today in Anaheim on 6LoWPAN Neighbor
> Discovery (ND). As you know this has been a longstanding open item.
>
>
>
> We have some specific deadlines for the Smart Energy work.
> Specifically, we need resolution on the ND topic (with a final I-D
> generally agreed by the WG) within a 2 month timeframe. If we cannot
> achieve this in 6LoWPAN, then our commercial alliance will need to
> create a commercial specification around whatever is available and we
> believe could later map to an agreed solution. This is not optimal
> but in reality we simply cannot wait any longer for closure on ND.
>
>
>
> Could we ask for at least a finite decision on what exact parts of
> ND-08 or ND-simple will be part of the next round of ND drafts? Could
> we ask for an expedited process in resolving this somehow? Is there a
> way we could contribute to the ND resolution through our
> interoperability testing for Smart Energy if we end up moving forward
> before WG consensus?
>
>
>
> What I think we need is a schedule and some work assignments that
> would lead to resolution on this topic. There are several members of
> our group who would be willing to contribute if there is a plan in
> place to close this issue quickly.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Don Sturek
>
> Chair, ZigBee Alliance Core Stack Working Group (representing ZigBee
> IP)
>
>
>
>
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