Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Near Field Communication
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From: The IESG <email@example.com> To: IETF-Announce <firstname.lastname@example.org> Cc: The IESG <email@example.com>, firstname.lastname@example.org, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.org, email@example.com, Samita Chakrabarti <firstname.lastname@example.org>, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.org Subject: Protocol Action: 'Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Near Field Communication' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-6lo-nfc-12.txt) The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Near Field Communication' (draft-ietf-6lo-nfc-12.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the IPv6 over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Suresh Krishnan and Terry Manderson. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6lo-nfc/
Technical Summary Near field communication (NFC) is a set of standards for smartphones and portable devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than 10 cm. The NFC technology has been widely implemented and available in mobile phones, laptop computers, and many other devices. This document describes how IPv6 is transmitted over NFC using 6LowPAN techniques. Considering the potential for exponential growth in the number of heterogeneous air interface technologies, NFC would be widely used as one of the other air interface technologies, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BT-LE), Wi-Fi, and so on. Each of the heterogeneous air interface technologies has its own characteristics, which cannot be covered by the other technologies, so various kinds of air interface technologies would co-exist together. Therefore, it is required for them to communicate with each other. Running IPv6 over the various low power L2 technologies with the modified 6lowpan stack ensures interoperability among the devices with various heterogeneous air interfaces. Working Group Summary This document has been revised several times based on working group comments. It has been reviewed by several experienced 6lo working group members including Pascal Thubert and Dave Thaler who have been designated reviewers of this document. It has has also received shepherd's comments and went through two WGLC ( one short and one regular one). Document Quality The document has been reviewed and discussed by many 6lo experts in the WG including Pascal Thubert, Carsten Bormann, Dave Thaler, Samita Chakrabarti, Gabriel Montenegro, James Woodyatt, Alex Petrescue, Michael Richardson. An implementation of 6lo-NFC exists and they participated on a 6lo plugtests. The document effort is also socialized with NFC-Forum and they are well aware this document. Personnel The document Shepherd is Carles Gomez and the Responsible Area Director is Suresh Krishnan.