6LoWPAN Updates & I-D Status

["Colin O'Flynn" <coflynn () newae com>]

Hello,

 

#1)

There was an update to the 6LoWPAN patch from a while back to add missing
features, specifically "context-based" decompression.

 

In addition I've updated that patch to support the latest version of the
6lowpan standard, hc-13. Note that hc-13 has gone to last call and is
unlikely to change the protocol format.

 

The patch is attached to
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5085 . I've tested this
patch, and am also aware of a number of other people testing the patch as
well. 

 

Would it be possible to get this committed to SVN and thus closed?

 

#2)

There are several I-D's which define new protocols. Two important updates
for 6lowpan people are 6lowpan-nd (neighbor discovery extensions) and RPL
(routing protocols). 

 

6lowpan-nd is in working-group last-call and seems unlikely to change, there
is a patch to add support at
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5086 .

 

The I-D however requires the assignment of 3 ND option types by the IANA,
and is temporarily using 31/32/33 as the types as defined in the I-D. Thus
the patch has these hard-coded in just like the other ND options in
packet-ipv6.h. But according to
http://www.iana.org/assignments/icmpv6-parameters this already conflicts
with another option.

 

How is this normally handled? Is it possible to get the code committed
despite not having official IANA assignments, and they are just updated when
they become official? Even if they were defined to zero, which isn't used,
it would help as at least the code is present, and thus the final "patch" is
much smaller.

 

Regards,

 

   -Colin

 

 

 

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