[net2-wg] Packet interface

[Kyle Jamieson]

> TDMA. You have an opportunity to send N packets to a single  
> destination. Also, CSMA+LPL, where a long preamble wakes up a node,  
> and others may go back to sleep once they hear the packet isn't for  
> them.

Yes, the MAC protocols you mention above are often optimized (for
varying reasons) for many-to-one communication (another example is
a topology control protocol like GAF or Span), but my point was
simply that we oughtn't tie our hands prematurely.

> It's definitely the case that an app can have N entries, if it wants.  
> There's no restriction in that regard. Chances are a pool entry is  
> ~20 bytes at most.

Cool, but can an app decide at runtime that it wants to send to N+1
sources instead of N?  Mightn't that be useful at some point in the
long-lived future of TOS-2?

Kyle