Mališa Vučinić <[email protected]> wrote:
    > I did quite a bit of work in the document, including some CBOR wizardry,
    > and defined new parameters and IANA registries with the goal of

I see! Thank you.

    > homogenizing the join for 6LBR and regular nodes. For now, I added an
    > optional "network prefix" parameter in the Join Response, carrying the 
IPv6
    > prefix of the network for the 6LBR. If there are some pitfalls with this
    > that I forgot, we can remove it. Similarly, I also added the "network
    > identifier" parameter in the Join Response, carrying PAN ID for the
    > 6LBR.

I don't quite understand the problem you are trying to fix here, let me come
back to this after I've read the diff again.

    > Regarding CBOR, the top-level types in Join Request and Join Response are
    > now all maps, but I removed the use of COSE_Key and COSE_Keyset and 
defined
    > our own structures in order to save bytes when transporting keys.
    > Essentially, this means that we are flexible to add new parameters in the
    > future in top-level Join Request and Join Response objects, but the inner
    > objects are fully optimized and poorly extensible due to the use of arrays
    > and uints.

This is really good work.

    > I also worked out a new key signaling mechanism using a "key usage"
    > parameter, where a single uint value from the registry specifies the IEEE
    > 802.15.4 security level to be used and the appropriate frame types the key
    > can be used with. The mechanism is flexible in that it allows us to
    > transport a key that is both K1 and K2, separate K1 and K2, different
    > security levels for each, and we can also define new combinations of
    > security levels/frame types in future. The solution only supports KeyIndex
    > mode of IEEE 802.15.4. Supporting other modes required mimicking 15.4
    > security structures to configure the security module and would have
    > required maps everywhere and extensive overhead. If you have any better
    > idea how to add support for other keying modes of 802.15.4, let me
    > know.

I don't think we need to support modes other than keyIndex, so I think that
this is fine.

    > Feedback is welcome, I am continuing with the work on the rekeying
    > mechanism that we discussed.

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