Re: [Coma] (no subject)

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:29:29PM +0800, Yan Wang wrote:
 
> By the way,
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-lwig-guidance-00#section-4.5 mentioned
> development of a light-weight SNMP agent for resource constrained devices
> running the 6LoWPAN/RPL protocol stack.

We have implemented an SNMP stack on Contiki and we have published
details about it. I think I only very partially agree with what is
written in this section 4.5. There is also an old expired I-D that
might be relevant: <draft-hamid-6lowpan-snmp-optimizations-03.txt>

> What the relationship between coma and core, coma and lwig?

My understanding is that CORE is specifying CoAP. CoAP may be used for
management but CORE is not chartered to specifically look at this
question. LWIG is looking at coming up with general guidelines for
light-weight implementations of IP protocols and hence might include
guidelines for implementing SNMP. COMA probably can take a broader
look at what is needed and in particular what the requirements driving
things are. There is also discussion on the netconf WG list related to
constrained devices, but it is as of now not chartered work.

I assume COMA is an attempt to provide a common place to discuss the
management requirements and aspects of constrained networks and
devices instead of having discussions in several places.

Of course, as Bert Wijnen kept saying, adding a protocol with the best
intentions to replace other protocols just leads at the end to one
more protocol. If that applies to discussion lists as well, then we
just have one more. ;-)

/js

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