Re: [6lowpan] WG adoption of draft-patil-6lowpan-v6over-btle-01.txt

[Alexandru Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Le 02/04/2011 01:56, Carles Gomez Montenegro a écrit :
>>>> To me IMHO bluetooth is to 802.15.4 what wifi is to 802.11 - a
>>>>  marketing name.  It seems sufficient to specify ipv6 over
>>>> 802.15.4 and that would cover all variants of bluetooth. There
>>>> is no ipv6-over-802.11n, nor ipv6-over-wifilowpower, for
>>>> example.
>>>>
> [...]
>>> Are you maybe referring to 802.15.1 instead of 802.15.4? (Btw,
>>> only some of the first Bluetooth versions were ratified as parts
>>> of 802.15.1)
>>
>> Right, it may be so, that I may refer to a 802.15 variant (.1
>> maybe) as bluetooth.
>
> [...]
>
> Well, the point is that, as other folks have already explained:
>
> - Bluetooth and 802.15.4 are *not* variants of the same thing. -
> Bluetooth Low Energy and 802.15.4 are *not* variants of the same
> thing.
>
> The "802.15" prefix in the spec. code (which only applies to some of
> the first Bluetooth versions, and e.g. *not* to BLE) may lead you to
> confusion.

Yes.  I am personally confused about 802.15 being  or not Bluetooth and,
by extension, BT-LE.

It may be that BT-LE is going to be backwards compatible with Bluetooth,
just speculating.  Otherwise why would they keep the bluetooth name in 
BT-LE.

Alex


> The analogy with 802.11 variants (as in your example) cannot be done
> here.
>
> Carles
>