Pat - I'm not on expert on the history of 802, but it does seem like
802.15.4
is *not* the same as 802.11 . 15.4 makes incompatible revisions a lot
more than 11.
I have an ancient laptop that has only an 802.11b radio.
When they rolled 11b into 802.11-2007, they didn't change anything (from my
perspective) because the radio still works with everything called 802.11b.
The same can not be said of 802.15.4, which has evolved with many
incompatible
changes over the years. Company foo shipping 4e-compliant products
today may
find that they are not compliant with the TSCH described in 15.4-2015.
I just don't
think that happened as often in .11 as it happens in .15.4
The world is filled with WiFi radios that have labels like "11b" and "11a"
and "11bg", why can't we have a stable IETF draft that points to "4e"?
If the standard doesn't change, no problem.
If it does change, then there won't be confusion about inter-operation:
if I have 6TisCH/4e products, they will interoperate with 6TiSCH/4e
products.
There may be other drafts that define how to run 6TiSCH/4xyz. RPL, UDP,
DTLS,
and CoAP will run on all of them because they are agnostic. But the
lowest layer
needs to be stable so that people know what's interoperable with what.
ksjp
On 4/30/2015 4:45 PM, Pat Kinney wrote:
802.3 or 802.11 for your example and everything else would be the same
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