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Re: [6lowpan] draft-brandt-6man-lowpanz as a new 6man WG document

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 15 March 2013 16:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [6lowpan] draft-brandt-6man-lowpanz as a new 6man WG document
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On Mar 15, 2013, at 12:26, Zach Shelby <zach@sensinode.com> wrote:

> In addition, I found Figure 4 in Section 5.3 to be confusing at first. It should be clarified that this is a G.9959 link-layer address. 

Actually, we had an off-line discussion that including the HomeID here would be akin to including the PAN-ID in Figure 7 of RFC 4944.  We didn't do that at the time, and we didn't find a good reason to do that now.  So what should remain is the 8-bit NodeID.

Grüße, Carsten

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