[Tinyos-devel] TEP 4 Shepherding

[Omprakash Gnawali]

Thanks for your comments, Ben. I am addressing two points you raised.

> lines 58-59: "The AM ID may conflict with the protocols and
> applications in the contrib tree." I'd say iff the contrib protool is
> intended to replace the TinyOS protocol. I think the language is weird
> in that an arbitrary contrib protocol can conflict with a blessed
> TinyOS protocol.

The concern is admission control on the contrib tree might become
resource intensive. My understanding is we want it to be as easy as
possible to put code on contrib. If contrib manager and the community
is interested in making sure these conflicts do not happen, I would be
happy to update the TEP before finalizing.

> lines 91-92: "The chair of the Network Protocol Working Group will
> document the deallocation." I'd also say the chair has the right to do
> the equivalent of requiring lease renewals, if the ID space gets
> tight.

If this happens, I think someone needs to do something to reclaim some
IDs. Yours would be one approach. We don't anticipate this to be a
problem in the next 1-2 yrs so it is probably better to defer this
discussion.

- om_p