[net2-wg] architecture or not

[Omprakash Gnawali]

> > The TinyOS 2.0 Network Protocol Working Group (net2) is responsible for
> >   o defining the interfaces to basic network protocols in TinyOS 2.x,
> > such as collection and dissemination and
> >   o producing reference implementations of those protocols
> 
> How can you define an interface without a surrounding architecture? 
> That simply does not make sense to me.
> 
> Besides, how do people put new protocols into TinyOS 2.x if there's no
> architecture?
> 
> And third, why can't the outside community participate in the
> definition of a network architecture?
> 
> -Joe

Just to add to this thread, there was a short discussion a few weeks
ago on whether we are specifying the interfaces or the protocol. When
we bring up the discussion on architecture, we should revisit that
interface vs. protocol question.