There is a world of difference between 802.15.4 and BT-LE. On 4/1/11 5:33 AM, "ext Alexandru Petrescu" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Le 01/04/2011 12:12, Carsten Bormann a écrit : >>> It seems to me IMHO bt-le is just a new phy, but same mac, hence ip >>> would not be affected. >> >> From the presentation, I had a different impression. >> >>> But of course, a document stating we do things over bt-le as >>> usually as over bt, would not hurt. >> >> Actually, it is required, as RFC4944 and its updates only define >> 6LoWPAN for IEEE 802.15.4. If two people took these documents and >> tried to apply them to BT-LE, they wouldn't necessarily arrive at >> interoperable specifications. > >To me IMHO bluetooth is to 802.15.4 what wifi is to 802.11 - a marketing >name. It seems sufficient to specify ipv6 over 802.15.4 and that would >cover all variants of bluetooth. There is no ipv6-over-802.11n, nor >ipv6-over-wifilowpower, for example. > >I may be wrong though about bluetooth being mostly 802.15.4 rfc4944 and >rfc2460. > >>> Is the WG re-opened? >> >> No, it is alive and well until such a time when it is actually being >> closed. All that was said is that the Prague meeting will be the last >> physical meeting of the WG. We want to close our unfinished business, >> and a number of documents are based on discussions that went on at >> least since Beijing, so if they fit our charter and we have energy to >> work on them, there is no problem doing that. > >sounds like doing new work without physical meetings... ok... > >Alex > >> >> Gruesse, Carsten >> > >_______________________________________________ >6lowpan mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan
