Re: [coman] [6lo] WG Review: IPv6 over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes (6lo)

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:07:15PM +0200, Benoit Claise wrote:
> >My understanding is that the charter refers to
> >
> >http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-schoenw-6lowpan-mib-03
> >
> >and that it not aims at a general discussion about network management
> >of constrained devices. That is, it refers to concrete work instead of
> >abstract work.
> That's actually my point. Should we focus on developing a MIB
> module, taking for granting that SNMP is THE way to manage
> constrained nodes? Or should we ask ourselves: based on the
> collected management requirements, let's see what is more
> appropriate?

One more time: The goal here is to define the number and the semantics
of the counters that need to implemented in the 6LoWPAN layer in order
to enable basic monitoring and troubleshooting. The formalism we have
(as a standard) for that are MIB modules.

There are several ways to transport the data over various protocols
today and there may be even more in the future. This activity is about
getting agreement what exactly needs to be counted where in the
6LoWPAN processing.

> You know, like I2RS is currently doing, instead of jumping to
> NETCONF/YANG directly because it seemed like the solution.

If you believe this is needed here in order to define a bunch of
counters.

/js

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