On Oct 12, 2009, at 14:47, Julien Abeille (jabeille) wrote:

the issues arised on lowpan networks as far as ND is concerned are not huge


[WG member hat]

Julien,

I'd like to know more about that.

As far as I can see, certain parts of 4861-ND just DO NOT WORK on non- transitive networks.
It's really as simple as that.

So you either make 6LoWPANs transitive at huge cost, or you need something like 6LoWPAN-ND for those parts. (Or, you simply ignore that they don't work, which you mostly can for DAD; we didn't want to do that.)

Please reread section 1, paragraph 2 of 4861 for its area of applicability.

Gruesse, Carsten

PS.: re the charter:
Getting rid of 4861's address resolution by multicast is indeed just an optimization.
I happen to believe it is a good one.  We can (and should!) debate that.
I would have argued to simply get rid of DAD as well, but there is the issue of counterfeiting. So we made a limited extension to make DAD work, which it doesn't for 4861-ND on non-transitive.
etc.

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