Subject: [6lo] FW: New Version Notification for draft-thubert-6lo-backbone-router-00.txt

From: "Pascal Thubert (pthubert)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:36:16 +0000

Dear all:

This is the long awaited backbone router draft that was split from 6LoWPAN ND before issuing RFC6775. It was placed in the early 6lo charter but delayed due to other activities. 

The text was generalized a bit to address the current concerns on Wi-Fi, and the specification was refined to reflect the running code that we demonstrated and interop tested at the 6TiSCH plugfests (twice). 

The draft addresses most of the requirements that have been debated at 6lo for over a year and tracked in draft-thubert-6lo-rfc6775-update-reqs, but for the security issues which are really addressed by draft-sarikaya-6lo-ap-nd-00.

The work is much more mature than a classical 00 draft, since it derives from a document that was adopted as WG doc by 6LoWPAN in Dublin in 2007 and progressed over the following years.

6TiSCH has now planned to test the Backbone router as part of the ETSI plugtest next summer in Berlin. To prepare for that, I'm calling for reviews and asking the chairs to consider WG adoption as soon as possible so we can complete the work in due time.

Comments welcome!

Pascal

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Subject: New Version Notification for draft-thubert-6lo-backbone-router-00.txt

A new version of I-D, draft-thubert-6lo-backbone-router-00.txt
has been successfully submitted by Pascal Thubert and posted to the IETF repository.

Name:		draft-thubert-6lo-backbone-router
Revision:	00
Title:		IPv6 Backbone Router
Document date:	2015-08-14
Group:		Individual Submission
Pages:		31
URL:            https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-thubert-6lo-backbone-router-00.txt
Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thubert-6lo-backbone-router/
Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thubert-6lo-backbone-router-00

Abstract:
   This specification proposes an update to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery, to
   enhance the operation of IPv6 over wireless links that exhibit lossy
   multicast support, and enable a large degree of scalability by
   splitting the broadcast domains.  A higher speed backbone federates
   multiple wireless links to form a large MultiLink Subnet.  Backbone
   Routers acting as Layer-3 Access Point route packets to registered
   nodes, where an classical Layer-2 Access Point would bridge.
   Conversely, wireless nodes register to the Backbone Router to setup
   routing services in a fashion that is essentially similar to a
   classical Layer-2 association.

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