Subject: [6lo] draft-li-6lo-native-short-address-00 in scope of 6lo Charter

From: Luigi Iannone <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:12:53 +0100

Dear 6loers,

During the presentation of the NSA document at the last meeting, Erik did raise the question on whether NSA is in the scope of the 6lo charter, which does not include routing.
The question is meaningful since the document uses the term "routing" in it.
However, we (the authors) believe the document belongs here.
NSA is basically an addressing technology that enables nearly stateless forwarding (aka, does not need routing mechanism on top).
Despite the very specific deployability scope, it might happens that some temporary topology changes arise. To cope with this situation, what is needed is to install temporary forwarding rules, so to guarantee connectivity at the price of some limited state. There is no actual routing exchange, meaning there is no explicit routing messages of any type floating around. May be the term "routing" is a bit misleading in such scenario and we will replace it with "forwarding rule" in the next revision of the document and further clarify it.

Does this address the concern about NSA in scope of 6lo?

Ciao

Luigi Iannone (on behalf of all authors)