<no hat, but wanting to see more movement on this>

On 23 Mar 2016, at 14:01, Tero Kivinen wrote:

> Valery Smyslov writes:
>>> It matters when you use things like 802.15.9. IEEE 802.15.9 provides a
>>> method to transport IKEv2 messages over IEE Std 802.15.4. In typical
>>> PHY of the 802.15.4 the max frame size is 127 bytes, which leaves
>>> about 96 bytes for the 802.15.9 for payload. Normal 300 byte IKEv2
>>> packet will require about 3-4 fragments sent in 3-4 frames. Each of
>>> those frames will be acknowledged, and there might be timing
>>> constrains how often they can be sent (for example in TSCH network
>>> this might be once per second at max, when using 10ms slot time, and
>>> slotframe size of 100).
>>>
>>> If we raise the MAC size from 8 to 16, that will cause 8% probability
>>> that we need one more frame to send that last part...
>>
>> That's a good reason. Shouldn't this (or similar) explanation be
>> added to the draft?
>
> Perhaps. How much of current information we want to put in the
> document. The things are changing all the time, and it might be true
> now for IoT, but might not be true in few years. Isn't enough to just
> say that currently this algorithm might be used for IoT.

That seems to be the right way to go.

--Paul Hoffman

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