Re: [Roll] call for consensus for the RPL RPI / RH3 compression

[Brian Haberman <[e-mail]>]

On 12/19/14 10:01 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote:
> That's interesting, Brian.
> 
> We decided that for completeness of its expression of the RPL
> operation, the draft should provide a pointer on the way the RPL info
> is carried. We need a minimum set of common stuff to interop and the
> way to express the RPL information is one. We can live with any
> default as long as everyone implements it. Now if optionally people
> support additional ways to make comparisons with that reference, that
> would certainly be good, if the question is still open at that time. 
> All in all, if you agree, we can progress the draft in IESG review
> leaving that particular reference open to be changed till later in
> the process?

Why would you expect that to be acceptable?  If a piece of the spec is
needed for interoperability, it needs to be there during the review.
Why send it to the IESG if there are still questions on how that piece
will be done?  If it is left out, how will anyone know if there is
consensus on the spec as a whole?

It seems to me that:

1. There have been several proposals put forth

2. Issues have been raised on each one

So, it seems prudent (to me) to look at each of the alternatives and
determine which warts everyone concerned is willing to live with.
Running code is a good way to do that.

Making that determination needs to be done before the spec is sent to
the IESG.

Regards,
Brian

> 
> Pascal
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Brian Haberman
>> [mailto:[e-mail]] Sent: vendredi 19 décembre 2014
>> 14:26 To: Pascal Thubert (pthubert); Routing Over Low power and
>> Lossy networks Cc: [e-mail];
>> [e-mail]; [e-mail]; 6lo- 
>> [e-mail] Subject: Re: [Roll] call for consensus for
>> the RPL RPI / RH3 compression
>> 
>> Pascal,
>> 
>> On 12/19/14 6:59 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote:
>>> The rush Carsten,
>>> 
>>> is that the document that will be the base for the 6TiSCH interop
>>> test in Prague is now in last call, and that document refers to
>>> the NHC draft. The question is what should it refer to, and
>>> whatever it refers to should be stable and implementable by now.
>> 
>> So, do you view the code for the interop being "set in stone"?  As
>> Adrian pointed out, the interop could be a way to work out the
>> tradeoffs of these multiple approaches.  That is, running code
>> leads to an IETF specification rather than the other way around.
>> 
>> Regards, Brian
>> 
>>> 
>>> Just the first (per your words) is just fine with me.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Pascal
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message----- From: Roll
>>>> [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Carsten Bormann
>>>> Sent: vendredi 19 décembre 2014 09:17 To: Routing Over Low
>>>> power and Lossy networks Cc: [e-mail];
>>>> [e-mail]; [e-mail]; 6lo-
>>>> [e-mail] Subject: Re: [Roll] call for consensus
>>>> for the RPL RPI / RH3 compression
>>>> 
>>>> On 17 Dec 2014, at 09:29, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) 
>>>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Decision in Hawaii was that the NHC draft could not be
>>>>> accepted as is, since we should compress also the RH3, and
>>>>> without a clear view of how that would happen, the details of
>>>>> the NHC compression could not be determined. So the NHC
>>>>> approach was abandoned
>>>> 
>>>> That is not at all what I recollect from Hawaii.
>>>> 
>>>> The current smorgasbord is:
>>>> 
>>>> — various ways to hijack the flow label (dead) — the 6553-NHC 
>>>> proposal — ideas for a new mesh header
>>>> 
>>>> I’m not going to beat the dead horse of the flow label hijack.
>>>> 
>>>> The 6553-NHC proposal mainly needs a decision between the
>>>> three variants (flip a coin, if need be). If time is of the
>>>> essence, 6553-NHC is the natural thing to do. We can always do
>>>> an RFC 6554 NHC compression separately.
>>>> 
>>>> The MH proposal is forward-looking and probably the right thing
>>>> for the evolution of 6lo, but probably also not compatible with
>>>> a tight time schedule.
>>>> 
>>>> Now, what is the rush? RFC 6553/6554 do exist.
>>>> 
>>>> So we get to choose between rushing 6553-NHC to completion or
>>>> using 6553/6554 for now and doing the MH work right (or. more
>>>> likely than just the first, both). I don’t have an opinion on
>>>> wether we need to rush 6553-NHC, but if we need to rush
>>>> anything, this one it is.
>>>> 
>>>> Grüße, Carsten
>>>> 
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