OpenThread, an open-source implementation of the Thread networking protocol

Re:OpenThread, an open-source implementation of the Thread n... by rektide on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:40PM (#11679059)

There does not seem to be any intent to make the Thread protocol itself public. Interesting situation, where the codebase is open but what it's supposed to do is still proprietary.

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Re:OpenThread, an open-source implementation of the Thread n... by mtgx on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:36PM (#11679522)

I imagine that's both for licensing purposes as well as for standardization purposes? I mean if every company starts making its own version of the Thread protocol that's slightly incompatible with everything else, that kind of defeats the whole point.

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Re:OpenThread, an open-source implementation of the Thread n... by signa11 on Thursday May 12, 2016 @09:40AM (#11683263)

> ...purposes as well as for standardization purpose...

Huh :) what's wrong with ietf rfc mechanism? or has google set a precedent which everyone else is now emulating ?

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Re:OpenThread, an open-source implementation of the Thread n... by brudgers on Thursday May 12, 2016 @09:01AM (#11683020)

The OpenThread white paper: http://threadgroup.org/Portals/0/documents/whitepapers/Threa...

Repostiory: https://github.com/openthread/openthread

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