[6lowapp] Newbie questions

[Kerry Lynn <[e-mail]>]

Greetings,

My name is Kerry Lynn and I hope to contribute to this effort remotely.  I
am an independent contractor working in the area of building automation
and have worked previously in Cisco and Apple network engineering in
addition to supporting university research into constrained devices.  I
hope you will bear with what may be foolish questions as I come up to
speed:

I tried to access the audio stream and jabber feed from yesterday's
meeting but was unable to do so.  Is IETF registration necessary?

Is it the consensus of the group to support peer-to-peer as well as
server-based configurations?  The first is what I'd term the "one light,
one switch" scenario while the latter would include DHCP, DNS, etc.
and perhaps application proxy support.

Has anyone considered something like T/TCP as a candidate for
transaction support?  I know it has been traditionally implemented
as a superset of TCP but I suspect it could be much simpler than
full TCP if used in a controlled environment such as local
communication with a full TCP/HTTP/REST proxy.  The security
concerns could be addressed simultaneously.

Has anyone proposed mDNS/DNS-SD as an alternative to SLP?
Does anyone have a feeling for how one client implementation
compares to the other in terms if complexity?

Thanks, -K-