[net2-wg] AM IDs for net2 protocols

[Omprakash Gnawali]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
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>  On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Omprakash Gnawali wrote:
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> > How many AM IDs should net2 reserve? I am thinking 20.
> >
> > Should it be at the low end or the high end? I am thinking low end.
> >
> > We need two for CTP and how many for drip and dip?
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>  I think that the TinyOS alliance should reserve all AM ids whose first bit
> is 1 (128-255). That is, protocols and services in tos/ only use those AM
> ids, and we recommend that code outside tos/ not use them.
>

Sounds reasonable. I can send an email to David about this.

Although we have 128-255, we should try to be as contiguous as
possible and maybe start using the IDs from 255 down.

- om_p