Observing Resources in CoAP
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CoRE Working Group K. Hartke
Internet-Draft Universitaet Bremen TZI
Intended status: Standards Track October 15, 2013
Expires: April 18, 2014
Observing Resources in CoAP
draft-ietf-core-observe-11
Abstract
CoAP is a RESTful application protocol for constrained nodes and
networks. The state of a resource on a CoAP server can change over
time. This document specifies a simple protocol extension for CoAP
that enables CoAP clients to "observe" resources, i.e., to retrieve
a representation of a resource and keep this representation updated
by the server over a period of time. The protocol follows a best-
effort approach for sending new representations to clients and
provides eventual consistency between the state observed by each
client and the actual resource state at the server.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Protocol Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3. Observable Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4. Consistency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.5. Requirements Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2. The Observe Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Client-side Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1. Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2. Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3. Caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.4. Reordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.5. Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.6. Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4. Server-side Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1. Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.2. Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.3. Caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.4. Reordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.5. Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5. Intermediaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6. Web Linking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
9. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Appendix A. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
A.1. Client/Server Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
A.2. Proxy Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Appendix B. Changelog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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