Re: [6tisch] I-D Action: draft-ietf-6tisch-msf-00.txt

[Florian Kauer <[e-mail]>]

That helps a lot and matches my speculation, thank you!

On 22.08.2018 15:09, Thomas Watteyne wrote:
> Florian,
> This document has quite some history, indeed. SF0 became SFX, then there 
> was ASF. MSF contains contributions from both SFX and ASF. ASF, SF0 and 
> SFX will therefore not become RFCs as standalone documents. You are 
> right, LLSF, which was designed by Dr Tengfei Chang, hasn't been turned 
> into an I-D. 6P is absolutely designed to allow multiple SFs; we now 
> have an IANA registry to give each SF and SFID. Multiple SFs can even be 
> run in parallel in the same network.
> Despite the fact that every other word in this e-mail is an acronym, I 
> hope this answers your question :-)
> Thomas
> 
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 2:07 AM Florian Kauer <[e-mail] 
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> 
>     Congratulations for this great result of the work of so many people
>     over
>     so many years!
> 
>     It would be great if someone could briefly sketch the history of this
>     draft for me since I am only reading this mailing list occasionally.
>     I am at least remembering the scheduling functions SF0, SF1, SFX and
>     ASF
>     (I also remember LLSF, but as far as I know there was never an IETF
>     document for it).
> 
>     Does any of these scheduling functions still have functionality
>     exceeding MSF that would make an implementation beneficial or is
>     everything in MSF now?
> 
>     Greetings,
>     Florian
> 
>     On 21.08.2018 11:22, [e-mail]
>     <mailto:[e-mail]> wrote:
>      >
>      > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line
>     Internet-Drafts directories.
>      > This draft is a work item of the IPv6 over the TSCH mode of IEEE
>     802.15.4e WG of the IETF.
>      >
>      >          Title           : 6TiSCH Minimal Scheduling Function (MSF)
>      >          Authors         : Tengfei Chang
>      >                            Malisa Vucinic
>      >                            Xavier Vilajosana
>      >                            Simon Duquennoy
>      >                            Diego Dujovne
>      >       Filename        : draft-ietf-6tisch-msf-00.txt
>      >       Pages           : 19
>      >       Date            : 2018-08-21
>      >
>      > Abstract:
>      >     This specification defines the 6TiSCH Minimal Scheduling Function
>      >     (MSF).  This Scheduling Function describes both the behavior of a
>      >     node when joining the network, and how the communication
>     schedule is
>      >     managed in a distributed fashion.  MSF builds upon the 6TiSCH
>      >     Operation Sublayer Protocol (6P) and the Minimal Security
>     Framework
>      >     for 6TiSCH.
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>      > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6tisch-msf/
>      >
>      > There are also htmlized versions available at:
>      > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6tisch-msf-00
>      > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-6tisch-msf-00
>      >
>      >
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