As an example, Lorenzo has commented in the past that unfortunate aspects of early IPv6 implementations having huge effect on battery. There is a linkage between protocol behaviour across L2, and power cost. Doing work to save battery life on a handheld, is not a huge distance from doing work on a protocol to save DC power budget. Or, AirCon. -G On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 1:10 PM Joel Jaeggli <joelja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 7/24/19 01:38, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > Brian E Carpenter wrote on 23/07/2019 23:11: > >> How would that^^ do as a valid IETF topic? > > > > I really like this, as an explicit goal. > > The pursuit of efficiency as a integral component pays profound > dividends. imho it has been an explicit goal of a number of IETF activities. > > > > > Nick > >