I tend to agree with Joe here. 

The classification seems a bit arbitrary to me. Carsten, could you provide a 
bit of background about the chosen values? 

On Jan 24, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Joe Touch wrote:

> I'm concerned that these ranges are too similar, and the distinction would be 
> short-lived.
> 
> I expect devices to persistently operate differently when their parameters 
> are at least 2 order of magnitudes different.
> 
> The numbers below are so close that they will change and thus likely overlap 
> over timescales that are too short, IMO, for the IETF to be concerned.
> 
> (i.e., there was a time when the difference between 4KB and 8KB was 
> important; now it's irrelevant)
> 
> Joe
> 
> On 1/24/2012 8:25 AM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>> 
>> after sending the workshop announcements to a few working groups I was
>> asked what I mean by "constrained" device.
>> 
>> I responded with a pointer to the classification Carsten proposed in
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bormann-lwig-guidance-00:
>> 
>> +---------+-----------------------+-------------------------+
>> | Name | data size (e.g., RAM) | code size (e.g., Flash) |
>> +---------+-----------------------+-------------------------+
>> | Class 1 | ~ 10 KiB | ~ 100 KiB |
>> | | | |
>> | Class 2 | ~ 50 KiB | ~ 250 KiB |
>> +---------+-----------------------+-------------------------+
>> 
>> During the IAB technical plenary at the last IETF meeting Jari claimed
>> that we need to have a Class 0 here as well to cover his sensor deployment.
>> 
>> Any thoughts about this classification?
>> 
>> Ciao
>> Hannes
>> 
>> 
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