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

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There is a world of difference between 802.15.4 and BT-LE.

On 4/1/11 5:33 AM, "ext Alexandru Petrescu" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>Le 01/04/2011 12:12, Carsten Bormann a écrit :
>>> It seems to me IMHO bt-le is just a new phy, but same mac, hence ip
>>> would not be affected.
>>
>> From the presentation, I had a different impression.
>>
>>> But of course, a document stating we do things over bt-le as
>>> usually as over bt, would not hurt.
>>
>> Actually, it is required, as RFC4944 and its updates only define
>> 6LoWPAN for IEEE 802.15.4. If two people took these documents and
>> tried to apply them to BT-LE, they wouldn't necessarily arrive at
>> interoperable specifications.
>
>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.
>
>I may be wrong though about bluetooth being mostly 802.15.4 rfc4944 and
>rfc2460.
>
>>> Is the WG re-opened?
>>
>> No, it is alive and well until such a time when it is actually being
>> closed. All that was said is that the Prague meeting will be the last
>> physical meeting of the WG. We want to close our unfinished business,
>> and a number of documents are based on discussions that went on at
>> least since Beijing, so if they fit our charter and we have energy to
>> work on them, there is no problem doing that.
>
>sounds like doing new work without physical meetings... ok...
>
>Alex
>
>>
>> Gruesse, Carsten
>>
>
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