A Message Bus for Local Coordination
RFC 3259
| Document | Type | RFC - Informational (May 2002; No errata) | |
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| Authors | Colin Perkins , Dirk Kutscher , Joerg Ott | ||
| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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Network Working Group J. Ott
Request for Comments: 3259 TZI, Universitaet Bremen
Category: Informational C. Perkins
USC Information Sciences Institute
D. Kutscher
TZI, Universitaet Bremen
April 2002
A Message Bus for Local Coordination
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
The local Message Bus (Mbus) is a light-weight message-oriented
coordination protocol for group communication between application
components. The Mbus provides automatic location of communication
peers, subject based addressing, reliable message transfer and
different types of communication schemes. The protocol is layered on
top of IP multicast and is specified for IPv4 and IPv6. The IP
multicast scope is limited to link-local multicast. This document
specifies the Mbus protocol, i.e., message syntax, addressing and
transport mechanisms.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1 Mbus Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2 Purpose of this Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3 Areas of Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4 Terminology for requirement specifications . . . . . . . . . 6
2. Common Formal Syntax Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. Message Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1 Mandatory Address Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Message Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.1 Message Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.2 Message Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.3 Command Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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6. Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.1 Local Multicast/Broadcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.1.1 Mbus multicast groups for IPv4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.1.2 Mbus multicast groups for IPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.1.3 Use of Broadcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.1.4 Mbus UDP Port Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.2 Directed Unicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7. Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
8. Awareness of other Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8.1 Hello Message Transmission Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8.1.1 Calculating the Interval for Hello Messages . . . . . . . . 22
8.1.2 Initialization of Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8.1.3 Adjusting the Hello Message Interval when the Number of
Entities increases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8.1.4 Adjusting the Hello Message Interval when the Number of
Entities decreases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8.1.5 Expiration of hello timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8.2 Calculating the Timeout for Mbus Entities . . . . . . . . . 24
9. Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
9.1 mbus.hello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
9.2 mbus.bye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
9.3 mbus.ping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
9.4 mbus.quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
9.5 mbus.waiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
9.6 mbus.go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
10. Constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
11. Mbus Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
11.1 Security Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
11.2 Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
11.3 Message Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
11.4 Procedures for Senders and Receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
12. Mbus Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
12.1 File based parameter storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
12.2 Registry based parameter storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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