The Application Exchange (APEX) Option Party Pack, Part Deux!
RFC 3342
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(July 2002; No errata)
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Network Working Group G. Klyne
Request for Comments: 3342 Clearswift Corporation
Category: Standards Track M. Rose
Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
M. Schwartz
Code On The Road, LLC
E. Dixon
H. Franklin
J. Kint
D. New
S. Pead
July 2002
The Application Exchange (APEX) Option Party Pack, Part Deux!
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
Application Exchange (APEX), at its core, provides a best-effort
application-layer datagram service. Options are used to alter the
semantics of the core service. This memo defines various options to
change the default behavior of APEX's "relaying mesh".
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RFC 3342 The Application Exchange (APEX) Party Pack July 2002
Table of Contents
1. The attachOverride Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. The dataTiming Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1 Upper-Bounds on Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1.1 Final Hop Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1.2 Timing Error Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2 Reporting on Delayed Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.2.1 Transient Timing Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3. The hold4Endpoint Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4. The dataHopping Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5. Initial Registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.1 Registration: The attachOverride Option . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.2 Registration: The dataTiming Option . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.3 Registration: The hold4Endpoint Option . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.4 Registration: The dataHopping Option . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6. The APEX Party Pack DTD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
A. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
B. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1. The attachOverride Option
Section 5.1 contains the APEX option registration for the
"attachOverride" option.
The default behavior of the APEX relaying mesh, in the absence of
processing options, is to allow at most one application to attach as
a particular endpoint, on a "first come, first served" basis. The
"attachOverride" option provides gives preference to the current
application trying to attach.
If this option is present in the "attach" operation (c.f., Section
4.4.1 of [1]) and if any application is already attached as the
specified endpoint, that endpoint has its attachment terminated
(c.f., Section 4.4.3 of [1]) concurrently with processing of that
"attach" operation. The "code" attribute of the resulting
"terminate" operation is set to 556.
Note that any data being expected by the previously-attached
application may instead be delivered to the last application to
successfully attach. Accordingly, applications should take care to
properly deal with incoming data having unrecognized transaction-
identifiers (c.f., Section 6.1.1 of [1]).
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RFC 3342 The Application Exchange (APEX) Party Pack July 2002
This option provides for a new attachment to automatically terminate
any existing attachment for the same endpoint. For example, this
might be helpful when a new attachment is required from a different
device while a previously-used device is still attached e.g.,
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