From the Internet of Things to the IETF
6LowPAN (IPv6 in Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks) for IEEE 802.15.4 networks

The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) , the organization that standardizes Internet protocols through specific working groups, reviews existing solutions to enable services to interoperate with each other or with existing applications on the Internet. This covers a large number of protocols, mainly IP (Internet Protocol ) and, more broadly, HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol ).

At level 3, the 6LoWPAN group, followed by the 6lo group (IPv6 over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes), are concerned with IP transport over the transmission media used by objects. Since version 4 of IP has a saturated...