BTW, do we have a status on the HC draft? We're way past last call aren't we? Did the draft already circulate in higher spheres?
Pascal > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Zach Shelby > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 12:39 PM > To: Richard Kelsey > Cc: Carsten Bormann; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [6lowpan] [Roll] Source Routing Header Format > > > On May 24, 2010, at 12:48 AM, Richard Kelsey wrote: > > > [Mailing list switched from roll to 6lowpan, as Carsten's > > question is for that group.] > > > >> From: Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> > >> To: [email protected] > >> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 18:33:24 +0200 > >> > >> On May 18, 2010, at 18:21, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: > >> > >>> Then 6LoWPAN can work on compressing it using 6LowpAN > >>> techniques. > >> > >> Do we (6LoWPAN) want to? > >> So far we have focused on compressing things that are very stable. > >> Tracking a moving target with a compression spec is tedious. > > > > I agree that tracking a moving spec is problematic. > > > > On the other hand, we know that in the end any source route > > (or record route) will be a block of IPv6 addresses with a > > few fields tacked on the front. It should be possible to > > work on compressing the route itself, which is where the > > bulk of the compression will be in any case. > > One of the reasons for including next-header-compression (NHC) in HC was > to support future compression of IPv6 extension headers. Therefore if an > RH0 style header would be used for source routing with full IPv6 addresses, a > NHC code could be defined for compressing those addresses. Note that HC > allows other documents to specify such an extension, even e.g. RPL could do > that, so this doesn't necessarily need to be defined in the 6lowpan WG. > > Zach > > > > > -Richard Kelsey > > _______________________________________________ > > 6lowpan mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan > > -- > Zach Shelby, Chief Nerd, Sensinode Ltd. > http://zachshelby.org - My blog "On the Internet of Things" > http://6lowpan.net - My book "6LoWPAN: The Wireless Embedded Internet" > Mobile: +358 40 7796297 > > _______________________________________________ > 6lowpan mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan
