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[barbibulle]

@glerchundi Yes, GitHub is a good place to start with any questions you have. We may setup a forum and/or slack channel later on, but for now this is the best way.

[barbibulle]

Hi @glerchundi. Thanks for the comments.
We're also outside observers of the CHIP alliance at this point, so we don't know what it will end up specifying, or when. But it is safe to say that the direction CHIP is going in is, at least on paper, very much in line with the architecture we've been working with and deploying for a while. So my hope is that as CHIP releases some specs, that we can try an reuse a lot of our framework code to become compatible with it. There are two parts to what we've shared: 1/ a set of fairly generic components, that can run on many platforms, and be used to build IP-oriented network stacks, with a focus towards secure CoAP-based application protocols with an async-io model, and 2/ some specific way to use BLE in order to tunnel IP packets from a phone to an IoT device over BLE/GATT, because GATT is the only BLE protocol offered on mobile phones. If CHIP ends up with something similar, or if iOS/Android eventually opens up something like the IPCP profile, then we would want to evolve our project to take advantage of it, allowing to keep the upper layer implementations intact. So, in a nutshell, I would expect this project and what eventually comes out of CHIP to become compatible over time. But we're not waiting ;-)

[glerchundi]

Thanks for taking the time to answer @barbibulle!

Good to see that we're aligned in this matter. We are going to get into much more detail in the following weeks so expect some follow-up issues ;-)

Just one last question about where to ask about these kind of design doubts, is GitHub issues the best place to get in touch with you & your team or do you have/prefer any other communication tool (Slack, forum, ...)?

[glerchundi]

Perfect, thanks again!