[secdir] EDHOC and Transports

[Tero Kivinen <[e-mail]>]

Jim Schaad writes:
> 3. 6LoPan over IEEE 802.15.4:  This has a packet size of 127 bytes.  The
> maximum frame overhead size is 25 bytes allowing for 102 bytes of message
> space.   If one assumes 20 bytes of overhead for CoAP then this means a
> protocol packet size of 82 bytes.  If one needs to break the message across
> multiple packets then the maximum data size is going to be 64 bytes using
> CoAP blockwise options.

IEEE 802.15.9 which provides framework for providing key management
for IEEE 802.15.4 do provide its own fragmentation and reassembly
service, thus allows bigger packets to delivered between devices. When
802.15.9 was being specified we saw that support for larger packets in
KMP is needed than what 802.15.4 provides (note, that in some cases
the phy layer limits the packet size even more), and thats why we did
define a fragmentation and reassembly protocol there too. 

Currently specified key management protocols for 802.15.9 include
802.1X/MKA, HIP, IKEv2, PANA, Dragonfly, 802.11/4WH, 802.11/GKH, ETSI
TS 102 887-2. Someone would need to write specification how to use
EDHOC over 802.15.9 to make it usable there too. Another omission in
the KMPs provided by the 802.15.9 is the TLS, as nobody wanted to
write that specification. In the IEEE there is some plans of doing
amendment to the 802.15.9 which could include some new key management
protocols, depending who would be interesting to write the text...
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