Comments for Status Update - 2009-04-27 at http://freaklabs.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://freaklabs.org Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:55:14 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/Blog/FreakZ/Status-Update-2009-04-27.html#comment-363 thank you for sharing with us, your posting is great nice to read your blog - sulumits retsambew Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:57:54 +0100 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/Blog/FreakZ/Status-Update-2009-04-27.html#comment-302 Yeah, that's probably why the announcement didn't get picked up by the major news outlets like EETimes. They couldn't really figure out what it meant. It's going to be a big change, and I'm interested to see how they implement it. It's mostly due to pressure from NIST and other government bodies to standardize on IP as the protocol of choice for the front end and backhaul. That, and Zigbee vendors would lose out to IP vendors for utility bids, just because IP is a much more familiar and comfortable term ;) - Akiba Fri, 01 May 2009 08:59:20 +0100 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/Blog/FreakZ/Status-Update-2009-04-27.html#comment-299 Ultimately, I did not understand ZigBee announcement this past week - there was no real substance. How would they use 6LoWPAN while reconciling it with the current stack definition? 6LoWPAN, IP, ROLL, etc. fundamentally replace a lot of what ZigBee has implemented already. - Sherif Hanna Fri, 01 May 2009 08:44:26 +0100 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/Blog/FreakZ/Status-Update-2009-04-27.html#comment-296 On a more relevant note, I'm actually pretty happy about the whole IP address change. It would be a significant argument in Zigbee's favour to me if I was a company making a decision on what to use. People are used to seeing and working with IP addresses (v.4 anyway, though I don't think v.6 will scare anyone off because of it's familiarity by association). My guess is that it can only help device/protocol adoption in the long run, even if it's bound to ruffle a few feathers in the short term, and it will probably make integration easier in certain situations. They probably have more to gain than to lose anyway. - Kevin Townsend Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:53:49 +0100 http://freaklabs.org/index.php/Blog/FreakZ/Status-Update-2009-04-27.html#comment-295 I have the same run on sentence problem myself. I often think of a quote I once read (if I remember correctly I think that it was written by a general during a war or something like that): "I'm writing you a long letter because I don't have time to write you a short one". How true! It often takes me two or three times longer to write something 'concise' as it does to just spit out three pages saying everything that crosses my mind. Thank goodness book publishers all have to pass through an editor, as much as it must hurt some people's egos to have their work torn apart and turned upside down. ;D Just look at the size of this comment, simply to share a quote that came to my mind. I need to hack my keyboard that I can only add up to 150 characters in a web textbox. :D - Kevin Townsend Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:44:47 +0100