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Re:Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-range wireless network by nambit on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @05:53PM (#21075978)
It's not as easy as "improving" existing protocols. Look at the ipv4 -> ipv6 mess. And even then ipv6 suffers from issues that are tied to how networks were built, etc. See this great article: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810

If I'm building something to give connectivity to dog tags, why not do something simpler?

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Re:Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-range wireless network by cafxx on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @06:48PM (#21076443)
Because something simple already exists, for this very use-case (and apparently, in the case of LoRa, with better range)?

I'm personally rooting for this to bomb badly.

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