Hi Thomas, I think our plan was to submit it to the Internet Area directly (Richard: That is from memory, am I correct?)
Don On 6/15/12 9:28 AM, "Thomas Heide Clausen" <i...@thomasclausen.org> wrote: > >On 15 Jun 2012, at 15:57, Don Sturek <d.stu...@att.net> wrote: > >> Hi Thomas (and Michael), >> >> I don't agree that MLE targets only RPL. The draft was written >>carefully >> to avoid having a narrow focus around RPL. That said, the deployment we >> are using this draft for uses 6LoWPAN, 6LoWPAN ND, ROLL RPL >>(non-storing) >> and I think many others will find the information exchanged between >> neighbors using MLE as useful. >> >> Don >> > >Hi Don, > >Note that I was replying to Michael's suggestions that MLE be married to >RPL. > >If you think it's not, then MLE should neither be developed in ROLL nor >be constrained by RPL code-points, messages or principles. > > >Thomas > >> On 6/15/12 6:15 AM, "Thomas Heide Clausen" <i...@thomasclausen.org> >>wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 15, 2012, at 15:12 , Michael Richardson wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Heide Clausen <i...@thomasclausen.org> writes: >>>> Thomas> Not sure how fantastic (or not) it is - it is not >>>> Thomas> immediately clear to me how tied MLE should be to RPL - if >>>> Thomas> it truly aims at being for _MESH_ link establishment, then >>>> Thomas> it would appear to be a much larger scope, and should not be >>>> Thomas> tied narrowly to a special-purpose protocol's type-space (& >>>> Thomas> conventions etc., that do not apply universally). >>>> >>>> Thomas, you will note that: >>>> 1) I suggested it go under IPv6 ICMP first, and if there was such push >>>> back about allocating a new type, that RPL could allocate a >>>> type/code. >>>> 2) ZigBee alliance (the proposal), *IS* using RPL. >>>> >>> >>> In that case, the draft must be very narrowly scoped and written such >>> that it's clear that it's applicable _only_ to that context >>> (special-purpose deployments of a special-purpose protocol), and >>> specifically to not pretend to do general mesh link establishment. >>> >>>> I see running it over UDP very architecturally strange. >>> >>> I don't. >>> >>> Thomas >>> >>>> -- >>>> Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works >>>> IETF ROLL WG co-chair. http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/roll/charter/ >>>> >>> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
