Virtual Meeting on October 20, 2014
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Meeting was planned to be held on TeamViewer, but due to technical problems moved to Skype (sic!)
- Martine Lenders(FU Berlin)
- Lotte Steenbrink (HAW Hamburg)
- Thomas Eichinger (FU Berlin)
- Martin Landsmann (HAW Hamburg)
- Peter Kietzmann (HAW Hamburg)
- Phạm Hữu Đăng Nhật (Ho Chi Minh University of Technology)
- Emmanuel Baccelli (INRIA)
- Hauke Petersen (FU Berlin)
- Oleg Hahm (INRIA)
- Oleg proposed the agenda
- Agenda was approved as followed:
- Current state of network stack refactoring
- Forwarding Table
- Timers
- Martine reported about current progress (finishing with 6LoWPAN, IPv6 is next) and stated that there's currently no schedule for the upcoming tasks
- Martine and Lotte discussed some ICMP related issues
- Hauke presented tentative block diagram of the network stack components
- Lotte asks where one could help Martine with the refactoring
- Oleg proposed that reviews of existing PRs are always welcome
- Oleg reported about Cenk's efforts to disentangle RPL and Trickle and improve efficiency
- Martin reported about a concept for a Forwarding Information Base and a Routing Information Base
- Oleg asked about a concept how the FIB is organized if more than one routing protocol is active
- Emmanuel pointed out that combining metrics of different routing protocols should not be considered
- Oleg asked about a concept to store different address types
- Martin replied that full IPv6 addresses (128 bits) should be supported, but maybe in a separate data structure
- Oleg reported that Fabian Nack at FUB might start work on this topic soon with a focus on multi-transceiver support
- Consensus was made that a unified and simplified timer API is desirable
- Further discussion is done on the mailing list