[6tisch] Time Synchronization

Oliver Hahm <oliver.hahm@inria.fr> Tue, 09 February 2016 10:36 UTC

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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:35:32 +0100
From: Oliver Hahm <oliver.hahm@inria.fr>
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Hi!

Probably I miss something obvious here, but I just stumbled about two things
in RFC7554 and Minimal that seem to be contradicting at a first glance:
RFC7554 in A8 states: "Nodes can keep synchronization exclusively by
exchanging EBs." However, draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-14 in section 6 states:
"EBs MUST NOT be used for time synchronization."

Can anyone enlighten me how to interpret this? May EBs be used for time
synchronization or not?

Cheers,
Oleg