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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
