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Network Working Group                                         C. Bormann
Internet-Draft                                    Universität Bremen TZI
Intended status: Informational                                J. Jiménez
Expires: 1 October 2020                                         Ericsson
                                                           30 March 2020

                     CoRE Working Group -- Overview
                     draft-bormann-core-overview-01

Abstract

   The IETF "Constrained RESTful Environments" (CoRE) Working Group
   standardizes application layer protocols that can be used by
   resource-constrained devices, as can be found in the Internet of
   Things (IoT).  It is part of a cluster of about a dozen IETF WGs
   defining specifications for these environments.

   This short document provides an overview of the activities of the
   CoRE WG as of end of March, 2020.

About This Document

   This document is not intended for publication as an RFC.  It provides
   a snapshot of the current status of the WG, from the personal view of
   the authors.  The intention is to keep it updated, roughly once per
   physical IETF meeting (or its digital replacement).

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Main Specification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   3.  Security  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Operations and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   5.  Data Formats  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   6.  Further Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   7.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7

1.  Introduction

   The IETF "Constrained RESTful Environments" (CoRE) Working Group
   standardizes application layer protocols that can be used by
   resource-constrained devices, as can be found in the Internet of
   Things (IoT).  It is part of a cluster of about a dozen IETF WGs that
   define networking (e.g., 6Lo), routing (e.g., ROLL), and security
   (e.g., ACE, LAKE, SUIT) for these environments.  This cluster has
   been growing since 2005; ten years ago, on 2010-03-09, CoRE was added
   to it.

2.  Main Specification

   The main specification of CoRE is the Constrained Application
   Protocol (CoAP) [RFC7252].  CoAP is for applications including
   constrained devices what HTTP is for general purpose applications.
   By using UDP as the transport protocol as opposed to HTTP's use of
   TCP, and by removing much of the baggage of of HTTP, CoAP can be run
   on quite simple platforms and with very little power use.  Both
   protocols share the Representational State Transfer (REST)
   architecture, the same set of verbs (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE), and
   quite similar semantics.

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   Since CoAP's approval in 2013, further specifications have been added
   to support the Observe pattern of change notifications from a server
   (low-complexity server-push) [RFC7641], to support larger transfers
   [RFC7959], to add verbs (FETCH, PATCH, and idempotent iPATCH
   [RFC8132]), and to enable the use of CoAP over TCP [RFC8323].