Bundle Protocol Version Demultiplexing
draft-taylor-dtn-demux-02
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| Author | Rick Taylor | ||
| Last updated | 2025-04-04 (Latest revision 2024-10-01) | ||
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Abstract
Since the publication of [RFC5050] a number of transport and convergence layer protocols have been developed to carry bundles between nodes in a delay-tolerant network. Before the publication of Bundle Protocol version 7 (BPv7) in [RFC9171], there was only one standardized version of the Bundle Protocol, version 6, and as many of these transport and convergence-layer protocols pre-date the publication of version 7, they do not include any protocol mechanism to differentiate between versions of the Bundle Protocol. This document describes a mechanism by which an implementation can efficiently determine validity and the version of the Bundle Protocol that was used to encode a bundle by examining the initial octets of the encoded data, allowing this document to be used as a normative reference for updates to existing protocols. Additionally, this document updates [RFC9171] by defining a CBOR [RFC8949] tag that may be used as an explicit indicator that a particular indefinite-length CBOR array is a Bundle Protocol version 7 bundle.
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