Re: [Roll] WG call to adopt draft-brandt-roll-rpl-applicability-home-building-03

[Abdussalam Baryun <[e-mail]>]

Hi Don,

IMHO, I don't think the draft is about interoperability, nor
commercial issues. The draft is an applicability draft, it helps users
to use the protocol in such environment or applications,

AB

On 2/21/13, Don Sturek <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Having implemented and certified 6 vendor solutions using ROLL RPL in
> ZigBee IP, I doubt very seriously that this is true:
>
> "......because these are questions that need to be
> answered if we are going to have interoperability between muyltiple
> vendors without resorting to yet another level of vendor forums)"
>
> It would be best to keep the scope of the applicability statement to just
> RPL P2P, not add assumptions on the use of outside RFCs/drafts and let
> commercial groups complete certification by choosing configuration
> parameters that address their needs.
>
> I would doubt we are going to get to a place where an ad hoc group of
> vendors are going to pick up 6LoWPAN, 6LoWPAN-ND, ROLL RPL, ROLL RPL P2P,
> ROLL Mr. HOF, etc. ....  ,   implement all these and find their solutions
> are all interoperable.   Just looking at all the configuration options in
> these various drafts, it is unlikely for interoperability to just happen
> (ignoring for a minute the security bootstrapping topic which has its own
> set of complications)
>
> Don