I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that IEEE 1905.1 might be something interesting to look at to see if it might be a useful component of a holistic homenet solution. It can do PHY and MAC layer topology discovery and PHY-layer metrics, for all Ethernet MAC-based PHYs (including Wi-Fi, HomePlug, G.hn, MoCA, HomePNA, Ethernet, etc.). Some feedback I got was that not being able to read the spec without paying for it made it a non-starter. Which I completely agree with. I was talking to Pat Thaler, who knows a lot about IEEE, asking if there was some way to get the specs to homenet. She said that if the homenet chairs sent a liaison to IEEE asking for it, explaining there was interest in possibly referencing it, that IEEE might send over a copy that could be made available to homenet participants via a password-protected means.
So if there is interest, I'd be happy to volunteer to help make such a liaison happen (work with chairs, liaison officer, and advocate on the IEEE side). I don't see any downside in asking for it. Barbara _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
