Re: [6lowpan] Fwd: Re: "Advertize on Behalf" flag in ARO

Hi Pascal and Nicolas,

I am in agreement with the following reasons (by Erik) as to why we don't want to add the TID/sequence#
in the ARO message. As discussed many times in the wg that the goal of this 6lowpan-nd work is to provide simple optimized neighbor discovery functionality of the low-power IPv6 network. This is independent of routing protocol functionalities such that it works with multiple routing protocols on top of it.

If RPL  or other routing protocol needs a specific information to pass around, it could do that as an option aka future extension of 6lowpan-nd. We already decided/presented in the Prague wg meeting and the consensus was to  move forward with the 6lowpan-nd as it is plus the editorial changes discussed at the meeting slides.

Besides the dependency of 6lowpan-nd on a specific routing protocol( such as RPL or backbone routing), I have a major concern including a feature like sequence# in the ARO message at this point for supporting a corner case without knowing its larger impact.

As for MIP, I am not sure if we want to run MIPv6 as it is in the 6lowpan network. Our design goal for 6lowpan-nd-basic is to provide the core functionality and then build things on top of it on a modular basis as needed.
Please help in proceeding toward the basic 6lowpan-nd work done first.

Best regards,
-Samita

| A host isn't aware of whether the routers speak IS-IS or OSPF, so why do the hosts need to be aware of RPL by | passing some TID around?

> I think ND has the same need as MIP for a TID == Sequence # . We know 
> of MIP; We know of RPL. We know of the backbone router operation. We 
> know we'll need the TID and we know exactly why. I think we should 
> have it in the 6LowPAN ND spec right away to avoid interop issues when 
> we add RPL and BR operations.

| I don't see a need in 6lowpan-nd for a TID; the protocol works fine without it.
| I think RPL needs to be improved to deal with reality. Isn't there a desire for RPL to handle 4861 hosts? | | | Those would never know about a TID.

|   Erik

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