[net2-wg] 6lowpan in T2?

[Omprakash Gnawali]

I think it will be great to have lib/net/6lowpan in the TinyOS 
distribution once the 6lowpan stack by Matus Harvan is debugged, 
testbed, and is ready for use by other users. This would be the first 
concrete step towards expanding the scope of our group which seems to 
have stagnated after we produce a reasonably working version of 
collection and dissemination. With 6lowpan, we might be able to 
interoperate with other devices and implementations which will increase 
the choice to the users. Availability of an open source implementation 
6lowpan stack might also facilitate research.

During the last month, I have been in communication with Matus Harvan 
who has a TinyOS 2.0 implementation of 6lowpan stack. The implementation 
is a good subset of 6lowpan. Matus tells me that the code is debugged 
and testbed and ready for use by users. He tells me that a few people 
from other institutions have used the stack with great success.

Here is a link to his page that describes the 6lowpan work (his Master's 
thesis) and a link to the code:

http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/users/harvan/research.html

Please take a moment to look at the document and code and let the group 
know your opinion on 6lowpan and if it should be a part of T2.

- om_p