Carsten...

> On Apr 5, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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.

I think I understand the technique you are describing.  Is there a written 
guideline or specification for the technique somewhere?

I don't recognize the term "multi-track environment".  Can you define it for me?

> 
>> 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.

In particular, I think I can infer how datagram tags would be used in a 
hop-scoped way with virtual reassembly buffers.  It would be good to have text 
to work through the details.  

- Ralph
 
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 
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