Re: [Roll] interest in mixed network topology

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 12 February 2014 20:46 UTC

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To me it seems a more viable course of action is to treat RPL's storing modes as an interesting experimental protocol and focus on the non-storing mode for deployment.
If both (or all, as there are multiple storing modes) were actually needed, the draft’s contributions should be of great interest to implementers.

But that conclusion is of course just my perception:  There may be this one compelling application of storing mode outside research systems that escaped me.

Grüße, Carsten