[Roll] Call to confirm a rough consensus on RPL info

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

Dear all: 

During the 6TiSCH bi-weekly virtual interim on Friday, we agreed that the minimal I-D (draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal) must indicate the compression method for the RPL Information (see RFC 6553), so as to ensure interoperation between 6TiSCH devices.

We discussed our options, basically either a 6lo approach or a Flow Label approach. The rough consensus at the call was to try and focus on a 6lo approach and evaluate where that leads us. 

Because this means that the minimal draft will have a normative reference on a WIP I-D, we recognized that this approach may delay the publication of the final RFC. Per IETF procedures, the minimal draft will be stalled in the RFC editor queue in MISREF state until the 6lo work completes. So the consensus was also to support the 6lo work so as to expedite it as much as possible. 

The idea would be to republish a standard track draft-ietf-6lo- ASAP, based on the existing proposals (which are rapidly converging); then, Xavi would include a normative reference to that work in the minimal I-D before its publication to IESG, which is scheduled in November (yes, this is aggressive).

This is a call to confirm the rough consensus on the ML, open till the next interim call on October 24th. Please provide us with any relevant comment (and participate to the 6lo discussions in the meantime!).

If the result is positive:
- we plan to call for a 6lo WG doc adoption in Hawaii
- we are looking for an aggressive schedule to limit the impact on the publication of the minimal RFC

6TiSCH may host the 6lo discussion so as to:
- benefit from the early morning schedule
- attract more 6TiSCH people to the discussion 

More the published minutes: 
- Webex recording: https://cisco.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=36a3b7df06694258a3ac65bfc519212f 
- Wiki: https://bitbucket.org/6tisch/meetings/wiki/141010_webex 
- Slides: https://bitbucket.org/6tisch/meetings/src/master/141010_webex/slides_141010_webex.ppt

Cheers,

Pascal