IETF Maastricht
Greetings from pleasant Maastricht, where the 78th IETF is being held this week. A lot of exciting things are happening on the wireless embedded Internet! Here is a crash course:
The 6LoWPAN WG is finishing its main objectives of finishing the new Header Compression [draft-ietf-6lowpan-hc] and Neighbor Discovery [draft-ietf-6lowpan-nd] optimizations. We expect both drafts to start the proposed standard process soon. Samita Chakrabarti and I will be releasing a short white paper on the updated 6LoWPAN ND for the IPSO Alliance soon.
The new CoRE WG held its second meeting with great progress. In just 4 months a stable version of the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) [draft-ietf-core-coap] was developed, along with 10+ interoperable implementations at Plugfest events held this week. Anyone can participate, see the CoRE Plugfest page.
The ROLL WG is currently in progress, with a major milestone being achieved with the completion of last call on the Ripple (RPL) routing protocol [draft-ietf-roll-rpl]. Work is ongoing to complete the security and route metric specifications.
Smart Grid is a hot topic in the energy and communication industries, and the IETF has been active in supporting the energy industry with information on the use of IP. The IETF has a Smart Power interest group for all interested.
See you in Beijing!
