CoRE Working Group                                         B. Silverajan
Internet-Draft                          Tampere University of Technology
Intended status: Informational                             T. Savolainen
Expires: April 24, 2014                                            Nokia
                                                        October 21, 2013


             CoAP Communication with Alternative Transports
          draft-silverajan-core-coap-alternative-transports-03

Abstract

   CoAP is being standardised as an application level REST-based
   protocol.  A single CoAP message is typically encapsulated and
   transmitted using UDP.  This draft examines the requirements and
   possible solutions for conveying CoAP packets to end points over
   alternative transports to UDP.  UDP remains the optimal solution for
   CoAP use in IP-based constrained environments and nodes.  However the
   need for M2M communication using non-IP networks, improved transport
   level end-to-end reliability and security, NAT and firewall traversal
   issues, and mechanisms possibly incurring a lower overhead to CoAP/
   HTTP translation gateways provide compelling motivation for
   understanding how CoAP can operate in various other environments.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Using Alternative Transports  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     1.2.  Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  CoAP Transport URI  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.1.  Transport information in URI scheme . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     2.2.  Transport information as part of the URI authority  . . .   7
       2.2.1.  Usage of DNS records  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     2.3.  Transport information in URI without authority component    7
       2.3.1.  Making CoAP Resources Available over Multiple
               Transports  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   3.  Alternative Transport Analysis and Properties . . . . . . . .  10
   4.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   6.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   7.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15

1.  Introduction

   The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) [I-D.ietf-core-coap] is
   being standardised by the CoRE WG as a lightweight, HTTP-like
   protocol providing a request/response model that constrained nodes
   can use to communicate with other nodes, be those servers, proxies,
   gateways, less constrained nodes, or other constrained nodes.

   As the Internet continues taking shape by integrating new kinds of
   networks, services and devices, the need for a consistent,
   lightweight method for resource representation, retrieval and
   manipulation becomes evident.  Owing to its simplicity and low
   overhead, CoAP is a highly suitable protocol for this purpose.
   However, the CoAP endpoint can reside in a non-IP network, be
   separated from its peer by NATs and firewalls or simply has no
   possibility to communicate over UDP.  Consequently in addition to
   UDP, alternative transport channels for conveying CoAP packets could
   be considered.

   This document looks at how CoAP can be used by nodes for resource
   retrieval, in an end-to-end manner regardless of the transport



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   channel available.  It looks at current usage of CoAP in this regard
   today and provides other possible scenarios.  Then the document looks
   at how resources using CoAP can contain resource information that
   provide endpoint as well as transport identifiers, without imposing
   incompatibilities with [I-D.ietf-core-coap] and maintaining
   conformance to [RFC3986].

   This draft does not discuss on application QoS requirements, user
   policies or network adaptation, nor does it advocate replacing the
   current practice of UDP-based CoAP communication.  The scope of this
   draft is limited towards a description and a requirements capture of
   how CoAP packets can be transmitted over alternative transports,
   especially how such protocols can be expressed at the CoAP layer, as
   well as how CoAP packets can be mapped at transport level payloads.

1.1.  Using Alternative Transports

   Extending CoAP's REST-based usage over alternative transports allows
   CoAP implementations to have a significantly larger relevance in
   constrained as well as non-constrained networked environments.  It
   leads to better code optimisation in constrained nodes and
   implementation reuse across new transport channels.  As opposed to
   implementing new resource retrieval schemes, an application in an
   end-node can continue relying on using CoAP for this purpose, but
   lets CoAP take into account the change in end point identification
   and transport protocol.  This simplifies development and memory
   requirements.  Resource representations are also visible in an end-
   to-end manner for any CoAP client.

   Inevitably, if two CoAP endpoints reside in distinctly separate
   networks with orthogonal transports, a CoAP proxy node is needed
   between the 2 networks so that CoAP Requests and Responses can be
   fulfilled properly.  The processing and computational overhead for
   conveying CoAP packets from one underlying transport to another,
   would be less than that of an application-level gateway performing
   individual packet-based, protocol translation between CoAP to another
   resource retrieval scheme.

1.2.  Use Cases

   CoAP has been designed to work on top of UDP, that is, on top of a
   transport that can lose, reorder, and duplicate packets.  UDP has
   been chosen as the transport protocol over IP due its lightweight
   nature and connectionless characteristics.  In addition to point-to-
   point communication, this allows multicast and group communications
   [I-D.ietf-core-groupcomm].  Moreover, DTLS can be employed to secure
   CoAP communication.




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   At this time of writing, the use of CoAP is also being specified for
   other environments as follows:

   1.  CoAP Request and Response messages can be sent via SMS or USSD
       between CoAP end-points in a cellular network
       [I-D.becker-core-coap-sms-gprs].  A CoAP Request message can also
       be sent via SMS from a CoAP client to a sleeping CoAP Server as a
       wake-up mechanism for subsequent communication via GPRS.  The
       Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) specifies both UDP and SMS as
       transports for M2M communication in cellular networks.  The OMA
       Lightweight M2M protocol being drafted uses CoAP, and as
       transports, specifies both UDP binding as well as Short Message
       Service (SMS) bindings [OMALWM2M] for the same reason.

   2.  The WebSocket protocol is being used as a transport channel
       between WebSocket enabled CoAP end-points on the Internet
       [I-D.savolainen-core-coap-websockets].  This is particularly
       useful as a means for web browsers, particularly in smart
       devices, to allow embedded client side scripts to upgrade an
       existing HTTP connection to a WebSocket connection through which
       CoAP Request and Response messages can be exchanged with a
       WebSocket-enabled server.  This also allows a browser containing
       an embedded CoAP server to behave as a WebSocket client by
       opening a connection to a WebSocket enabled CoAP Mirror Server to
       register and update its resources.

   3.  [I-D.jimenez-p2psip-coap-reload] specifices how CoAP nodes can
       use a peer-to-peer overlay network called RELOAD, as a resource
       caching facility for storing wireless sensor data.  When a CoAP
       node registers its resources with a RELOAD Proxy Node (PN), the
       node computes a hash value from the CoAP URI and stores it as a
       structure together with the PN's Node ID as well as the
       resources.  Resource retrieval by CoAP nodes is accomplished by
       computing the hash key over the Request URI,opening a connection
       to the overlay and using its message routing system to contact
       the CoAP server via its PN.

   4.  Using TCP to facilitate the traversal of CoAP Request and
       Response messages [I-D.bormann-core-coap-tcp].  This allows
       easier communication between CoAP clients and servers separated
       by firewalls and NATS.  This also allows CoAP messages to be
       transported over push notification services from a notification
       server to a client app on a smartphone, that may previously have
       subscribed to receive change notifications of CoAP resource
       representations, possibly by using CoAP Observe-functionality
       [I-D.ietf-core-observe].





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   We also envisage CoAP being extended atop other transport channels,
   such as:

   1.  The transportation of CoAP messages in Delay-Tolerant Networks
       [RFC4838], using the Bundle Protocol [RFC5050] for reaching
       sensors in extremely challenging environments such as acoustic,
       underwater and deep space networks.

   2.  Any type of non-IP networks supporting constrained nodes and low-
       energy sensors, such as Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy
       (either through L2CAP or with GATT), ZigBee, Z-Wave, 1-Wire,
       DASH7 and so on.

   3.  Instant Messaging and Social Networking channels, such as Jabber
       and Twitter.

2.  CoAP Transport URI

   CoAP is logically divided into 2 sublayers, whereby a request/
   response layer is responsible for the protocol functionality of
   exchanging request and response messages, while the messaging layer
   is bound to UDP.  These 2 sublayers are tightly coupled, both being
   responsible for properly encoding the header and body of the CoAP
   message.  The COAP URI is used by both logical sublayers.  For a URI
   that is expressed generically as

   URI = scheme ":" "//" authority path-abempty ["?"query ]

   A simple example COAP URI, "coap://server.example.com/sensors/
   temperature" can be interpreted as follows:



               coap :// server.example.com /sensors/temperature
               \___/    \______  ________/  \______  _________/
                 |             \/                  \/
              protocol      endpoint          parameterised
             identifier    identifier           resource
                                               identifier


                       Figure 1: The CoAP URI format

   The resource path is explicitly expressed, and the endpoint
   identifier, which contains the host address at the network-level is
   also directly bound to the scheme name containing the application-
   level protocol identifier.  The choice of a specific transport for a
   scheme, however, cannot be embedded with a URI, but is defined by



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   convention or standardisation of the protocol using the scheme.  As
   examples, [RFC5092] defines the 'imap' scheme for the IMAP protocol
   over TCP, while [RFC2818] requires that the 'https' protocol
   identifier be used to differentiate using HTTP over TLS instead of
   TCP.

   Several ways of formulating a URI which express an alternative
   transport binding to CoAP, can be envisioned.  These are listed in
   this section.  When such a URI is provided from an end-application to
   its CoAP implementation, the URI component containing transport-
   specific information can be checked to allow the CoAP to use the
   appropriate transport for a target endpoint identifier.

   The CoAP Transport URI can also be supplied as a Proxy-Uri option by
   a CoAP end-point to a CoAP forward proxy in order to communicate with
   a CoAP end-point residing in a network using a different transport.
   Section 6.4 of [I-D.ietf-core-coap] provides an algorithm for parsing
   a received URI to obtain the request's options.

2.1.  Transport information in URI scheme

   The URI scheme can follow a convention of the form "coap+<transport-
   name>", where the name of the transport is clearly and unambiguously
   described.  Each scheme name formed in this manner can be used to
   differentiate the use of CoAP over an alternative transport instead
   of the use of CoAP over UDP or DTLS.  The endpoint identifier, path
   and query components together with each scheme name would be used to
   uniquely identify each resource.

   Examples of such URIs are:

   o  coap+tcp://[2001:db8::1]:5683/sensors/temperature for using CoAP
      over TCP

   o  coap+sms://0015105550101/sensors/temperature for using CoAP over
      SMS or USSD with the endpoint identifier being a telephone
      subscriber number

   o  coap+ws://www.example.com/WebSocket?/sensors/temperature for using
      CoAP over WebSockets with the endpoint at ws://www.example.com/
      WebSocket

   Note: Expressing target address formats other than IPv6 literal
   addresses with '[' and ']' characters within this URI format, such as
   Bluetooth, is as yet unresolved.

   As the usage of each alternative transport results in an entirely new
   scheme, IANA intervention is required for the registration of each



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   scheme name.  The registration process follows the guidelines
   stipulated in [RFC4395], particularly where permanent URI scheme
   registration is concerned.

2.2.  Transport information as part of the URI authority

   A single URI scheme, "coap-at" can be introduced, as part of an
   absolute URI which expresses the transport information within the
   authority component.  One approach is to structure the component with
   a transport prefix to the endpoint identifier and a delimiter, such
   as "<transport-name>-endpoint_identifier".

   Examples of resulting URIs are:

   o  coap-at://tcp-server.example.com/sensors/temperature

   o  coap-at://sms-0015105550101/sensors/temperature

   An implementation note here is that some generic URI parsers will
   fail when encountering a URI such as "coap-at://tcp-[2001:db8::1]/
   sensors/temperature".  Consequently, an equivalent, but parseable URI
   from the ip6.arpa domain needs to be formulated instead.  For
   [2001:db8::1] using TCP, this would result in the following URL:

   coap-at://tcp-1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.8.b.d.0
   .1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa:5683/sensors/temperature

   Usage of an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address such as [::ffff.192.100.0.1] can
   similarly be expressed with a URI from the ip6.arpa domain.

2.2.1.  Usage of DNS records

   DNS names can be used instead of IPv6 address literals to mitigate
   lengthy URLs referring to the ip6.arpa domain, if usage of DNS is
   possible.

   DNS SRV records can also be employed to formulate a URL such as:

   coap-at://srv-_coap._tcp.example.com/sensors/temperature

   in which the "srv" prefix is used to indicate that a DNS SRV lookup
   should be used for _coap._tcp.example.com, where usage of CoAP over
   TCP is specified for example.com, and is eventually resolved to a
   numerical IPv4 or IPv6 address.

2.3.  Transport information in URI without authority component

   The CoAP URI used thus far is as follows:



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        URI         = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ]
        hier-part   = "//" authority path-abempty



   A new URI format could be introduced, that does not possess an
   "authority" component, and instead defining "hier-part" to instead
   use another component, "path-rootless", as specified by RFC3986
   [RFC3986].  The partial ABNF format of this URI would then be:


         URI         = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ]
         hier-part   = path-rootless
         path-rootless = segment-nz *( "/" segment )



   The full syntax of "path-rootless" is described in [RFC3986].  A
   generic URI defined this way would conform to the syntax of
   [RFC3986], while the path component can be treated as an opaque
   string to indicate transport types, endpoints as well as paths to
   CoAP resources.  A single scheme can similarly be used.

   When used this way, the URIs described in Section 2.1 for the TCP and
   WebSocket endpoints would appear as:

   o  coap-at:tcp://server.example.com/sensors/temperature where "coap-
      at" is the scheme and "tcp://server.example.com/sensors/
      temperature" is the path component that contains transport
      endpoint information as well as the path to the resource

   o  coap-at:ws://www.example.com/WebSocket?/sensors/temperature where
      "coap-at" is the scheme, "ws://www.example.com/WebSocket" is the
      path component that contains the transport endpoint information
      and "/sensors/temperature" is a query component that contains the
      path to the resource from the WebSocket endpoint.

   Implementation note: While square brackets are disallowed within the
   path component, the '[' and ']' characters needed to enclose a
   literal IPv6 address can be percent-encoded into their respective
   equivalents.  The ':' character does not need to be percent-encoded.
   This results in a significantly simpler URI string compared to
   section 2.2, particularly for compressed IPv6 addresses.
   Additionally, the URI format can be used to specify other similar
   address families and formats, such as Bluetooth.

2.3.1.  Making CoAP Resources Available over Multiple Transports




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   A constrained node that is capable of communicating over several
   types of transports (such as UDP, TCP and SMS) would be able to
   convey a single CoAP resources over multiple transports.  A key
   challenge here is the avoidance of URI aliasing [WWWArchv1], namely,
   a situation where several distinct URIs refer to the same resource.

   Requesting and retrieving the same CoAP resource representation over
   multiple transports could be rendered possible by prefixing the
   transport type and endpoint identifier information to the CoAP URI.
   This would result in the following example representation:



     coap-at:tcp://example.com?coap://example.com/sensors/temperature
             \_______  ______/ \________________  __________________/
                     \/                         \/
              Transport-specific            CoAP Resource
                  Prefix



             Figure 2: Prefixing a CoAP URI with TCP transport

   Such a representation would result in the URI being decomposed into
   its constituent components, with the CoAP resource residing within
   the query component as follows:

   Scheme: coap-at

   Path: tcp://example.com

   Query: coap://example.com/sensors/temperature

   The same CoAP resource, if requested over a WebSocket transport,
   would result the following URI:



      coap-at:ws://example.com/endpoint?coap://example.com/sensors/temperature
              \___________  __________/ \_______________  ___________________/
                          \/                            \/
                  Transport-specific             CoAP Resource
                        Prefix



          Figure 3: Prefixing a CoAP URI with WebSocket transport




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   While the transport prefix changes, the CoAP resource representation
   remains the same in the query component:

   Scheme: coap-at

   Path: ws://example.com/endpoint

   Query: coap://example.com/sensors/temperature

3.  Alternative Transport Analysis and Properties

   In this section we consider the various characteristics of
   alternative transports for successfully supporting various kinds of
   functionality for CoAP.  CoAP factors lossiness, unreliability, small
   packet sizes and connection statelessness into its protocol logic.
   We discuss general transport differences and their impact on carrying
   CoAP packets here.  Note that Properties 1, 2, and 3 are related.

   Property 1: Uniqueness of an end-point identifier.

   Transport protocols providing non-unique end-point IDs for nodes may
   only convey a subset of the CoAP functionality.  Such nodes may only
   serve as CoAP servers that announce data at specific intervals to a
   pre-specified end point, or to a shared medium.

   Property 2: Unidirectional or bidirectional CoAP communication
   support.

   This refers to the ability of the CoAP end-point to use a single
   transport channel for both request and response messages.  Depending
   on the scenario, having a unidirectional transport layer would mean
   the CoAP end-point might utilise it only for outgoing data or
   incoming data.  Should both functionalities be needed, 2
   unidirectional transport channels would be necessary.

   Property 3: 1:N communication support.

   This refers to the ability of the transport protocol to support
   broadcast and multicast communication.  CoAP's request/response
   behaviour depends on unicast messaging.  Group communication in CoAP
   is bound to using multicasting.  Therefore a protocol such as TCP
   would be ill-suited for group communications using multicast.
   Anycast support, where a message is sent to a well defined
   destination address to which several nodes belong, on the other hand,
   is supported by TCP.

   Property 4: Transport-level reliability.




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   This refers to the ability of the transport protocol to provide a
   guarantee of reliability against packet loss, ensuring ordered packet
   delivery and having error control.  When CoAP Request and Response
   messages are delivered over such transports, the CoAP implementations
   elide certain fields in the packet header.  As an example, if the
   usage of a connection-oriented transport renders it unnecessary to
   specify the various CoAP message types, the Type field can be elided.
   For some connection-oriented transports, such as WebSockets, the
   version of CoAP being used can be negotiated during the opening
   transfer.  Consequently, the Version field in CoAP packets can also
   be elided.

   Property 5: Message encoding.

   While parts of the CoAP payload are human readable or are transmitted
   in XML, JSON or SenML format, CoAP is essentially a low overhead
   binary protocol.  Efficient transmission of such packets would
   therefore be met with a transport offering binary encoding support,
   although techniques exist in allowing binary payloads to be
   transferred over text-based transport protocols such as base-64
   encoding.  A fuller discussion about performing CoAP message encoding
   for SMS can be found in Appendix A.5 of [I-D.bormann-coap-misc]

   Property 6: Network byte order.

   CoAP, as well as transports based on the IP stack use a Big Endian
   byte order for transmitting packets over the air or wire, while
   transports based on Bluetooth and Zigbee prefer Little Endian byte
   ordering for packet fields and transmission.  Any CoAP implementation
   that potentially uses multiple transports has to ensure correct byte
   ordering for the transport used.

   Property 7: MTU correlation with CoAP PDU size.

   Section 4.6 of [I-D.ietf-core-coap] discusses the avoidance of IP
   fragmentation by ensuring CoAP message fit into a single UDP
   datagram.  End-points on constrained networks using 6LoWPAN may use
   blockwise transfers to accommodate even smaller packet sizes to avoid
   fragmentation.  The MTU sizes for Bluetooth Low Energy as well as
   Classic Bluetooth are provided in Section 2.4 of
   [I-D.ietf-6lowpan-btle].  Transport MTU correlation with CoAP
   messages helps ensure minimal to no fragmentation at the transport
   layer.  On the other hand, allowing a CoAP message to be delivered
   using a delay-tolerant transport service such as the Bundle Protocol
   [RFC5050] would imply that the CoAP message may be fragmented (or
   reconstituted) along various nodes in the DTN as various sized
   bundles and bundle fragments.




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   Property 8: Framing

   When using CoAP over a streaming transport protocol such as TCP, as
   opposed to datagram based protocols, care must be observed in
   preserving message boundaries.  Commonly applied techniques at the
   transport level include the use of delimiting characters for this
   purpose as well as message framing and length prefixing.

   Property 9: Transport latency.

   A confirmable CoAP request would be retransmitted by a CoAP end-point
   if a response is not obtained within a certain time.  A CoAP end-
   point registering to a Resource Directory uses a POST message that
   could include a lifetime value.  A sleepy end-point similarly uses a
   lifetime value to indicate the freshness of the data to a CoAP Mirror
   Server.  Care needs to be exercised to ensure the latency of the
   transport being used to carry CoAP packets is small enough not to
   interfere with these values for the proper operation of these
   functionalities.

   Property 10: Connection Management.

   A CoAP endpoint using a connection-oriented transport should be
   responsible for proper connection establishment prior to sending a
   CoAP Request message.  Both communicating endpoints may monitor the
   connection health during the Data Transfer phase.  Finally, once data
   transfer is complete, at least one end point should perform
   connection teardown gracefully.

4.  IANA Considerations

   This memo includes no request to IANA.

5.  Security Considerations

   While we envisage no new security risks simply from the introduction
   of support for alternative transports, end-applications and CoAP
   implementations should take note if certain transports require
   privacy trade-offs that may arise if identifiers such as MAC
   addresses or phone numbers are made public in addition to FQDNs.

6.  Acknowledgements

   Feedback, ideas and ongoing discussions with Klaus Hartke, Martin
   Thomson, Mark Nottingham, Graham Klyne, Carsten Bormann, Markus
   Becker and Golnaz Karbaschi provided useful insights and ideas for
   this work.




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7.  Informative References

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              BLUETOOTH Special Interest Group, "BLUETOOTH Specification
              Version 4.0 ", June 2010.

   [I-D.becker-core-coap-sms-gprs]
              Becker, M., Li, K., Poetsch, T., and K. Kuladinithi,
              "Transport of CoAP over SMS", draft-becker-core-coap-sms-
              gprs-04 (work in progress), August 2013.

   [I-D.bormann-coap-misc]
              Bormann, C. and K. Hartke, "Miscellaneous additions to
              CoAP", draft-bormann-coap-misc-25 (work in progress), May
              2013.

   [I-D.bormann-core-coap-tcp]
              Bormann, C., "A TCP transport for CoAP", draft-bormann-
              core-coap-tcp-00 (work in progress), July 2013.

   [I-D.ietf-6lowpan-btle]
              Nieminen, J., Savolainen, T., Isomaki, M., Patil, B.,
              Shelby, Z., and C. Gomez, "Transmission of IPv6 Packets
              over BLUETOOTH Low Energy", draft-ietf-6lowpan-btle-12
              (work in progress), February 2013.

   [I-D.ietf-core-coap]
              Shelby, Z., Hartke, K., and C. Bormann, "Constrained
              Application Protocol (CoAP)", draft-ietf-core-coap-18
              (work in progress), June 2013.

   [I-D.ietf-core-groupcomm]
              Rahman, A. and E. Dijk, "Group Communication for CoAP",
              draft-ietf-core-groupcomm-16 (work in progress), October
              2013.

   [I-D.ietf-core-observe]
              Hartke, K., "Observing Resources in CoAP", draft-ietf-
              core-observe-11 (work in progress), October 2013.

   [I-D.jimenez-p2psip-coap-reload]
              Jimenez, J., Lopez-Vega, J., Maenpaa, J., and G.
              Camarillo, "A Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
              Usage for REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD)",
              draft-jimenez-p2psip-coap-reload-03 (work in progress),
              February 2013.

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              Savolainen, T., Hartke, K., and B. Silverajan, "CoAP over
              WebSockets", draft-savolainen-core-coap-websockets-01
              (work in progress), October 2013.

   [IANA-paparazzi-uri]
              https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/
              paparazzi, "Resource Identifier (RI) Scheme name:
              paparazzi ", September 2012.

   [OMALWM2M]
              Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), "Lightweight Machine to
              Machine Technical Specification ", 2013.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC2609]  Guttman, E., Perkins, C., and J. Kempf, "Service Templates
              and Service: Schemes", RFC 2609, June 1999.

   [RFC2818]  Rescorla, E., "HTTP Over TLS", RFC 2818, May 2000.

   [RFC3986]  Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
              Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, RFC
              3986, January 2005.

   [RFC4395]  Hansen, T., Hardie, T., and L. Masinter, "Guidelines and
              Registration Procedures for New URI Schemes", BCP 35, RFC
              4395, February 2006.

   [RFC4838]  Cerf, V., Burleigh, S., Hooke, A., Torgerson, L., Durst,
              R., Scott, K., Fall, K., and H. Weiss, "Delay-Tolerant
              Networking Architecture", RFC 4838, April 2007.

   [RFC5050]  Scott, K. and S. Burleigh, "Bundle Protocol
              Specification", RFC 5050, November 2007.

   [RFC5092]  Melnikov, A. and C. Newman, "IMAP URL Scheme", RFC 5092,
              November 2007.

   [RFC6455]  Fette, I. and A. Melnikov, "The WebSocket Protocol", RFC
              6455, December 2011.

   [RFC6568]  Kim, E., Kaspar, D., and JP. Vasseur, "Design and
              Application Spaces for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless
              Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)", RFC 6568, April 2012.

   [RFC6733]  Fajardo, V., Arkko, J., Loughney, J., and G. Zorn,
              "Diameter Base Protocol", RFC 6733, October 2012.



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   [WWWArchv1]
              http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-aliases, "Architecture
              of the World Wide Web, Volume One ", December 2004.

Authors' Addresses

   Bilhanan Silverajan
   Tampere University of Technology
   Korkeakoulunkatu 10
   FI-33720 Tampere
   Finland

   Email: bilhanan.silverajan@tut.fi


   Teemu Savolainen
   Nokia
   Hermiankatu 12 D
   FI-33720 Tampere
   Finland

   Email: teemu.savolainen@nokia.com





























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