Dear Mister Bormann, Thank you for your comprehensive reply.
> 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. If you remember my first mail on this mailing-list, I was explicitly asking what you called a "constrained node". Because, to quote : http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bormann-lwig-guidance-01 "Generic hardware design advice and software implementation techniques are outside the scope of this document." This is totally no sense. In deeply embedded environments, we also need a bottom-top approach, hence my request. Especially, we can see that the people on this mailing-list (and on the contiki's one as well) need a serious course in Electrical Engineering before dreaming of designing the "Internet of the Future". By the way, I have absolutely no affiliation with the DASH7 project. But, I should admit that Mister Norair made something that too few people are doing : his homeworks :) > Anyway, for those who can't see this in their mail clients: the sentence with > "From" is mine, not from the source cited by Guillaume. Sorry for the > confusion. > No problem on my side : I am using Gmail :) Best Regards, Guillaume FORTAINE On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
