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

[Thomas Heide Clausen <[e-mail]>]

On 15 Jun 2012, at 15:57, Don Sturek <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Thomas (and Michael),
> 
> I don't agree that MLE targets only RPL.  The draft was written carefully
> to avoid having a narrow focus around RPL.  That said, the deployment we
> are using this draft for uses 6LoWPAN, 6LoWPAN ND, ROLL RPL (non-storing)
> and I think many others will find the information exchanged between
> neighbors using MLE as useful.
> 
> Don
> 

Hi Don,

Note that I was replying to Michael's suggestions that MLE be married to RPL.

If you think it's not, then MLE should neither be developed in ROLL nor be constrained by RPL code-points, messages or principles.


Thomas

> On 6/15/12 6:15 AM, "Thomas Heide Clausen" <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jun 15, 2012, at 15:12 , Michael Richardson wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Heide Clausen <[e-mail]> writes:
>>>   Thomas> Not sure how fantastic (or not) it is - it is not
>>>   Thomas> immediately clear to me how tied MLE should be to RPL - if
>>>   Thomas> it truly aims at being for _MESH_ link establishment, then
>>>   Thomas> it would appear to be a much larger scope, and should not be
>>>   Thomas> tied narrowly to a special-purpose protocol's type-space (&
>>>   Thomas> conventions etc., that do not apply universally).
>>> 
>>> Thomas, you will note that:
>>> 1) I suggested it go under IPv6 ICMP first, and if there was such push
>>>    back about allocating a new type, that RPL could allocate a
>>> type/code.
>>> 2) ZigBee alliance (the proposal), *IS* using RPL.
>>> 
>> 
>> In that case, the draft must be very narrowly scoped and written such
>> that it's clear that it's applicable _only_ to that context
>> (special-purpose deployments of a special-purpose protocol), and
>> specifically to not pretend to do general mesh link establishment.
>> 
>>> I see running it over UDP very architecturally strange.
>> 
>> I don't.
>> 
>> Thomas
>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>, Sandelman Software Works
>>> IETF ROLL WG co-chair.    http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/roll/charter/
>>> 
>> 
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