+1 AB
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Don Sturek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas (and Michael), > > I don't agree that MLE targets only RPL. The draft was written carefully > to avoid having a narrow focus around RPL. That said, the deployment we > are using this draft for uses 6LoWPAN, 6LoWPAN ND, ROLL RPL (non-storing) > and I think many others will find the information exchanged between > neighbors using MLE as useful. > > Don > > > > > > On 6/15/12 6:15 AM, "Thomas Heide Clausen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >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 >
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