Re: [6lowpan] [Roll] draft-kelsey-intarea-mesh-link-establishment-03.txt

[Don Sturek <[e-mail]>]

Hi Michael,

It is the process needed to make additions to ICMP.   We have multiple
implementers using the existing MLE draft so we also are trying to get
closure if we can since we plan to being commercial certification shortly.

To us, MLE provides the features we need and there is ownership that does
not rely on ourside work groups.  If others find use in MLE (and we
believe they will) then it is offered as a draft to the IETF community.
If the protocol fundamentally changes and has dependencies on other
groups, I would doubt it would be ready for implementation in our
timeframe.

Don





On 6/15/12 7:30 AM, "Michael Richardson" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
>>>>>> "Don" == Don Sturek <[e-mail]> writes:
>    Don> We believe UDP makes the most sense as a transport for MLE.
>ICMP will
>    Don> take entirely too long and will end up being a maintenance issue
>if there
>    Don> are additional information exchanges needed using MLE.
>
>I can't see a difference myself in "length of time", unless you mean
>time to change hardware/firmware/software.
>
>ICMP is even 4 bytes shorter than UDP.
>
>-- 
>Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>, Sandelman Software Works
>IETF ROLL WG co-chair.    http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/roll/charter/
>