[Tinyos-host-mote-wg] Re: TinyOS 2.0 host-mote working group

[David Gay]

While I remember, some food for thought:

One of the reasons I didn't want to go for full PPP is because it's 
connection-oriented. This may not sound like a problem, but consider how 
we typically use base stations: we're constantly changing motes, 
reprogramming them, resetting them, etc. There's no clear time when the 
connection should be established, or shut down -- unlike when you're 
dialing in to your ISP...

This is of course solvable (timeouts, attempts to reestablish the 
connection, changes to the PC-side programming model, etc), but it's 
extra work and doesn't really match the current usage model, which is 
more a connection-less message-passing style.

David