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Re: [homenet] wifi broadcast domain - Mikael Abrahamsson's comments

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 03 April 2019 01:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] wifi broadcast domain - Mikael Abrahamsson's comments
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STARK, BARBARA H <bs7652@att.com> wrote:
    > I am involved in the joint BBF effort that they mentioned. If someone
    > wanted to join that project (it's free to join -- just requires
    > agreeing to IPR policy and BSD+Patent open source license) and suggest
    > and provide code for HNCP, they could.

I will followup with you, unicast.

    > But since this is a purely Layer
    > 2 network (routers will break it), the HNCP would really only be for
    > other routers (e.g., IoT gateways attaching a Thread network) that
    > aren't part of the Multi AP L2 network. If you'd like more info for
    > joining the joint BBF/prpl project, let me know.

If the border routers are on the same L2 as the extensions, then it shouldn't
be a problem.  If there is a more complex HNCP network, then we could
probably simulate the L2 scenario with VXLAN, configured by HNCP.

There are probably some advantages to doing that as well.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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