On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Markus Becker 
<[email protected]>wrote:

> > >
> > > Yes. It's a REST-like application layer.
> >
> > What is REST?
>
> Representational State Transfer.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer
>
> > How wedded is CoAP to blip?    Can it sit on a lighter weight transport?
>
> It uses blip's UDP interface, i.e. sento, recvfrom, bind. Internally
> CoapBlip
> and libcoap also use IPv6 addresses. Other transports might work, YMMV.
> It fits rather nicely to blip though, as it is also part of the IETF stack:
> 6LoWPAN, RPL, CoAP.
>

I understand it fits into the IETF stack.   That makes sense.

But ipv6/6lowpan maybe too expensive and am wondering how easy it would be
to port to a different transport.  Addressing objects should be done using
abstract objects like berkeley sockets.    But if CoAP uses explicitly IPv6
addresses rather than addressing objects then it makes things a bit more
expensive.  It can still work because I can easily map 16 bit addresses into
large addresses but the overhead of ipv6 addresses is a bit expensive.

We'll see how things look.

Thanks,

eric


>
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > eric
> > > >
> > > > > BR,
> > > > > Markus
> > >
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Eric B. Decker
Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher
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