[Tinyos-help] [Tinyos-devel] AM ID guidelines for net2 protocols and other applications

[Philip Levis]

On Apr 30, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Matt Welsh wrote:
> OK, this is fine enough, though I guess it means that the net2 WG is  
> the gatekeeper for all protocols in TinyOS. It wasn't clear to me  
> that this was the case...

Well, I'd hope it's not. net2 is responsible for assigning the IDs,  
not necessarily deciding whether a protocol should in in tinyos-2.x;  
that would be up to the WG responsible for the code. E.g., as has come  
up in the past, one could imagine a working group forming around a  
protocol family.

>> Sure. My question was how AM IDs in the reserved range are reclaimed.

I'd think when the code leaves tinyos-2.x? As long as the code is in  
the tree, the ID will be needed... so it's up to a WG when to garbage- 
collect a protocol it doesn't want to support any more.

Phil