Re: Reducing the battery impact of ND

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Wed, 19 February 2014 05:06 UTC

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On 02/17/2014 07:05 AM, ek wrote:
>  > If the community is interested in supporting a new ethertype for IPv6 ND, please let me know.  I would expedite an I-D from Cisco who has IPR related to the new ethertype.  See 
>  >  
>  > http://www.google.com/patents/US8102854 
>  
> I haven't read this, but, IMHO, the potential existence of IPR about using a new ethertype for NUD messages is a wonderful reason to *never ever* do this.

Can *that* have an IPR???

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Fernando Gont
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