On Jan 26, 2012, at 18:23, Guillaume Fortaine wrote: > Dear Dr Bormann, > > Thank you for your reply. > > >> 6LoWPAN *is* plain IPv6. >> I have no idea what the sentence that you are quoting is trying to say. > > With all the due respect, it seems that some people don't agree with you :
Sure, some people even think that SOPA is a good idea. > http://dash7.org/blog/?p=1782 > > "(N.B. Ironically, 6LoWPAN, a wireless spec written specifically to > allow IPv6 over low power wireless, is kind of silly, because it is > 802.15.4 based and hence it is largely incapable of achieving any of > the useful features of IPv6.)" >From a technical point of view, the whole point of running the 6LoWPAN WG for >the last half-decade was to exactly make IPv6 available for constrained >node/networks. That may not take away those constraints, and if you want to >sell something else, it may make sense to proclaim it silly. Here, >specifically, the guy is selling a radio that is different from 802.15.4, so >he's trying to malign 802.15.4, striking 6LoWPAN in passing. I would prefer to discuss these things from a technical angle, not by pointing to content-free marketing sites/slides. Grüße, Carsten _______________________________________________ Lwip mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lwip
