[6tsch] payload format for CoAP

"Raghuram Sudhaakar (rsudhaak)" <rsudhaak@cisco.com> Sat, 05 October 2013 15:29 UTC

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From: "Raghuram Sudhaakar (rsudhaak)" <rsudhaak@cisco.com>
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During our call on 4/10 we suggested Name-Value pairs (NVP) and CBOR as the possible CoAP payload formats.

The line of discussion was

  1.  Obvious advantages of CBOR are related to control overhead. However the percentage advantage of CBOR over NVP is not established.
  2.  Constrained devices may not be able to handle the additional overhead of a CBOR parser. NVPs are easy to parse.
  3.  But, the CoAP messages are typically layer 5 transactions and the processing constraint may not be applicable.
  4.  There is a clear tradeoff w.r.t simplicity vs efficiency in making the choice.

I would like to call upon the group for more discussion on this topic so we can reach a consensus.

-raghuram