CoRE Resource Directory
draft-ietf-core-resource-directory-24
CoRE Z. Shelby
Internet-Draft ARM
Intended status: Standards Track M. Koster
Expires: 10 September 2020 SmartThings
C. Bormann
Universitaet Bremen TZI
P. van der Stok
consultant
C. Amsüss, Ed.
9 March 2020
CoRE Resource Directory
draft-ietf-core-resource-directory-24
Abstract
In many IoT 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 contains
information about resources held on other servers, allowing lookups
to be performed for those resources. The input to an RD is composed
of links and the output is composed of links constructed from the
information stored in the RD. This document specifies the web
interfaces that a Resource Directory supports for web servers to
discover the RD and to register, maintain, lookup and remove
information on resources. Furthermore, new target attributes useful
in conjunction with an RD are defined.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Architecture and Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1. Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2. Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3. RD Content Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.4. Link-local addresses and zone identifiers . . . . . . . . 12
3.5. Use Case: Cellular M2M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.6. Use Case: Home and Building Automation . . . . . . . . . 13
3.7. Use Case: Link Catalogues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4. RD discovery and other interface-independent components . . . 14
4.1. Finding a Resource Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1.1. Resource Directory Address Option (RDAO) . . . . . . 17
4.1.2. Using DNS-SD to discover a resource directory . . . . 19
4.2. Payload Content Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.3. URI Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5. Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.1. Simple Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.2. Third-party registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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