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CoRE                                                           Z. Shelby
Internet-Draft                                                       ARM
Intended status: Standards Track                               M. Koster
Expires: September 14, 2017                                  SmartThings
                                                              C. Bormann
                                                 Universitaet Bremen TZI
                                                         P. van der Stok
                                                              consultant
                                                          March 13, 2017

                        CoRE Resource Directory
                 draft-ietf-core-resource-directory-10

Abstract

   In many M2M applications, direct discovery of resources is not
   practical due to sleeping nodes, disperse networks, or networks where
   multicast traffic is inefficient.  These problems can be solved by
   employing an entity called a Resource Directory (RD), which hosts
   descriptions of resources held on other servers, allowing lookups to
   be performed for those resources.  This document specifies the web
   interfaces that a Resource Directory supports in order for web
   servers to discover the RD and to register, maintain, lookup and
   remove resource descriptions.  Furthermore, new link attributes
   useful in conjunction with an RD are defined.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  Architecture and Use Cases  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     3.1.  Use Case: Cellular M2M  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.2.  Use Case: Home and Building Automation  . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.3.  Use Case: Link Catalogues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   4.  Finding a Resource Directory  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.1.  Resource Directory Address Option (RDAO)  . . . . . . . .   9
   5.  Resource Directory  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     5.1.  Content Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     5.2.  Base URI Discovery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     5.3.  Registration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
       5.3.1.  Simple Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
       5.3.2.  Simple publishing to Resource Directory Server  . . .  17
       5.3.3.  Third-party registration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
       5.3.4.  Plurality of link references in a Registration  . . .  18
     5.4.  Operations on the Registration Resource . . . . . . . . .  18
       5.4.1.  Registration Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
       5.4.2.  Registration Removal  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
       5.4.3.  Read Endpoint Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
       5.4.4.  Update Endpoint Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
   6.  RD Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
     6.1.  Register a Group  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
     6.2.  Group Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
   7.  RD Lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
   8.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
     8.1.  Endpoint Identification and Authentication  . . . . . . .  35