This field shall indicate the connected status of the associated network, where "connected" means currently linked to the network technology (e.g. Associated for a Wi-Fi network, media connected for an Ethernet network).

This field shall indicate the connected status of the associated network, where "connected" means currently linked to the network technology (e.g. Associated for a Wi-Fi network, media connected for an Ethernet network).

Every network is uniquely identified (for purposes of commissioning) by a NetworkID mapping to the following technology-specific properties:

• SSID for Wi-Fi

• Extended PAN ID for Thread

• Network interface instance name at operating system (or equivalent unique name) for Ethernet.

The semantics of the NetworkID field therefore varies between network types accordingly. It contains SSID for Wi-Fi networks, Extended PAN ID (XPAN ID) for Thread networks and netif name for Ethernet networks.

NOTE

SSID in Wi-Fi is a collection of 1-32 bytes, the text encoding of which is not specified. Implementations must be careful to support reporting byte strings without requiring a particular encoding for transfer. Only the commissioner should try to potentially decode the bytes. The most common encoding is UTF-8, however this is just a convention. Some configurations may use Latin-1 or other character sets. A commissioner may decode using UTF-8, replacing encoding errors with "?" at the application level while retaining the underlying representation.

XPAN ID is a big-endian 64-bit unsigned number, represented on the first 8 octets of the octet string.

Every network is uniquely identified (for purposes of commissioning) by a NetworkID mapping to the following technology-specific properties:

• SSID for Wi-Fi

• Extended PAN ID for Thread

• Network interface instance name at operating system (or equivalent unique name) for Ethernet.

The semantics of the NetworkID field therefore varies between network types accordingly. It contains SSID for Wi-Fi networks, Extended PAN ID (XPAN ID) for Thread networks and netif name for Ethernet networks.

NOTE

SSID in Wi-Fi is a collection of 1-32 bytes, the text encoding of which is not specified. Implementations must be careful to support reporting byte strings without requiring a particular encoding for transfer. Only the commissioner should try to potentially decode the bytes. The most common encoding is UTF-8, however this is just a convention. Some configurations may use Latin-1 or other character sets. A commissioner may decode using UTF-8, replacing encoding errors with "?" at the application level while retaining the underlying representation.

XPAN ID is a big-endian 64-bit unsigned number, represented on the first 8 octets of the octet string.