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

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On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Don Sturek <d.sturek@att.net> 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
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> On 6/15/12 6:15 AM, "Thomas Heide Clausen" <ietf@thomasclausen.org> wrote:
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> >
> >On Jun 15, 2012, at 15:12 , Michael Richardson wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Heide Clausen <ietf@thomasclausen.org> 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 <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
> >> IETF ROLL WG co-chair.    http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/roll/charter/
> >>
> >
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