Xavi, Kris - Some questions about draft 17:

4: The callouts in figure 1 don't exactly match what's in 4.5.2, namely that 
the timelsot and hopping template IDs (as opposed to the full sequence) are 
what is carried in the EB.

4.5: This paragraph could be interpreted as saying that a compliant node may 
choose particular settings, but must be able to understand all possible valid 
TSCH settings to be 6TiSCH compliant.  I don't understand that you "may" set to 
any valid TSCH setting but you "should" set them to what is specified later on. 
 

4.5.1:  
1) What is the EB source address size?   Presumably the dst is short FFFF, but 
it isn't stated. 
2)  "While listening for EBs, a joining node set its own PAN ID to 0xffff..." 
Why is the PAN ID set to FFFF? This implies that the EB either doesn't have a 
dst PAN ID (contrary to the previous paragraph) or that nodes accept EB's from 
any advertising PAN, which makes PANID not useful in partitioning networks. 

4.5.2:  "EBs SHOULD NOT be used for time synchronization." The JN must 
initially set it's clock from the EB, otherwise it will have no idea when to 
send in its join request - see 6.2.   I think you mean that EB's should not be 
used for time synchronization after a node has K2?

4.6: How do you send in a join request using K2 (since it is a data frame and 
not an EB) when you don't have K2 yet?

Jonathan

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