6LowApp: Application protocols for 6LoWPAN and other LLN

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

    The 6LoWPAN and ROLL WGs are laying the groundwork to make the
    Wireless Embedded Internet a reality, but what application protocols
    will we use?  Request-response protocols like HTTP are a poor fit to
    a communication model with battery-operated, mostly sleeping nodes.
    In addition, the usual data formats (both headers and body) are
    perceived to be too chatty for the 50-60 byte payloads possible in
    LoWPANs and to require too much code for the 8-bit and 16-bit
    processors dominating the Internet of Things.  Still, it would be a
    mistake to start a new silo of application protocols that do not
    benefit from existing application area Internet experience.

At IETF75, we will hold a Bar BOF to scope out possible IETF work and  
maybe form an opinion on which part should be done in which IETF area.

Tentative information is at http://u.nu/6jfh =
http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/app/trac/wiki/BarBofs/IETF75/6LowApp
(and you are welcome to contribute to this Wiki page).

-> Please tell us whether the envisaged date and time of ->Tue 18:30<-  
will work for you!

A first version of a problem statement (where the above paragraph was  
stolen from) is at:

http://tools.ietf.org/id/6lowapp
(draft-bormann-6lowpan-6lowapp-problem-00.txt)

I will start planning an agenda for the Bar BOF soon, so if you have  
something to say that would help in this conversation, please tell me  
(with an estimated amount of time).

Gruesse, Carsten