On Sep 21, 2010, at 15:48, Michael Richardson wrote:

>    Pascal> We'll be very glad that 6LoWPAN compresses RPL
>    Pascal> optimally. But RPL being layer 2 agnostic cannot depend on
> 
> Only when the security is provide by the layer 2 can the layer 2 do any
> compression.   Otherwise, the encryption of the RPL messages renders the
> compression useless.

I think Pascal was talking about the encapsulation RPL provides for data 
packets (RPL option, draft-ietf-6man-rpl-option-00.txt), not about actual RPL 
messages.  Do you think the encapsulation information will be encrypted?

Gruesse, Carsten

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