> The major rationale IMO for this draft is that it doesn't require 
> intermediary nodes to reassemble!

As I said in the WG meeting (and pointed out in the 6LoWPAN book), this has not 
really been necessary even in the original 6LoWPAN.  However, to make “virtual 
reassembly buffers” work in multi-track environments, the first fragment (which 
provides the routing info) has to be sent on all tracks.

> The label switching mechanism is elegant as the labels are locally 
> significant only, with no need to maintain a network-wide label registry. The 
> document should state so.

Yes, that is the idea behind datagram tags in RFC 4944 — they are local to the 
hop.  Viewing the set of “virtual reassembly buffers” as a label switching 
table is certainly one way to describe it.  Still, this is an implementation 
technique for RFC 4944 6LoWPAN fragmentation, not a new protocol.

Grüße, Carsten

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