On Jun 15, 2012, at 15:12 , Michael Richardson wrote: > >>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Heide Clausen <[email protected]> writes: > Thomas> Not sure how fantastic (or not) it is - it is not > Thomas> immediately clear to me how tied MLE should be to RPL - if > Thomas> it truly aims at being for _MESH_ link establishment, then > Thomas> it would appear to be a much larger scope, and should not be > Thomas> tied narrowly to a special-purpose protocol's type-space (& > Thomas> conventions etc., that do not apply universally). > > Thomas, you will note that: > 1) I suggested it go under IPv6 ICMP first, and if there was such push > back about allocating a new type, that RPL could allocate a type/code. > 2) ZigBee alliance (the proposal), *IS* using RPL. >
In that case, the draft must be very narrowly scoped and written such that it's clear that it's applicable _only_ to that context (special-purpose deployments of a special-purpose protocol), and specifically to not pretend to do general mesh link establishment. > I see running it over UDP very architecturally strange. I don't. Thomas > -- > Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works > IETF ROLL WG co-chair. http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/roll/charter/ > _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan
