Re: [ipwave] Intdir early review of draft-ietf-ipwave-ipv6-over-80211ocb-34

["Pascal Thubert (pthubert)" <[e-mail]>]

Hello Alexandre

can help you on the ND side. We can talk about 6LoWPAN ND which supports non broadcast networks if you like.


Regards,

Pascal

> Le 6 mars 2019 à 16:15, Alexandre Petrescu <[e-mail]> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Pascal,
> 
>> Le 04/03/2019 à 12:24, Pascal Thubert a écrit :
>> [...]
>> "   An 'adaptation' layer is inserted between a MAC layer and the
>>    Networking layer.  This is used to transform some parameters between
>>    their form expected by the IP stack and the form provided by the MAC
>>    layer.
>> "
>> Is this different from what an AP does when it bridges Wi-Fi to Ethernet? Is
>> this IETF business?
> 
> No and yes:
> 
> No, this Ethernet Adaptation Layer is not different from what an AP does when it bridges WiFi to Ethernet.  All Access Points do this Ethernet Adaptation Layer.
> 
> Yes, it is debatable whether it is an IETF or IEEE business, but I tend to say it is an IETF business now.  There are three reasons for that:
> 
> 1. IETF recently defined such adaptation layers several times (6lowpan comes to mind and more).
> 
> 2. IEEE does not define such an adaptation layer - there is no IEEE document that describes in a manner that a simple programmer understands how this adaptation layer works (some have referred informally to IEEE 'bridging' topic but I did not see that document myself).
> 
> 3. not least, a particular field that this Ethernet Adaptation Layer (EAL) must fill is ethertype 0x86dd, whose value _is_ more under the authority of IETF than of IEEE.
> 
> Do you think otherwise?
> 
> Alex
> [...]