[net2-wg] 6lowpan in T2?

[Philip Levis]

On Jul 12, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Omprakash Gnawali wrote:

> 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.

Yes.

Phil