The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Group Communication for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)' (draft-ietf-core-groupcomm-bis-17.txt) as Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Constrained RESTful Environments Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Gorry Fairhurst and Mike Bishop. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-core-groupcomm-bis/ Technical Summary This document specifies the use of the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) for group communication, including the use of UDP/IP multicast as the default underlying data transport. Both unsecured and secured CoAP group communication are specified. Security is achieved by use of the Group Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (Group OSCORE) protocol. The target application area of this specification is any group communication use cases that involve resource-constrained devices or networks that support CoAP. This document replaces and obsoletes RFC 7390, while it updates RFC 7252 and RFC 7641. Working Group Summary This is a substantial document addressing a somewhat specialized topic (multicast), so there is no surprise that there were only about four responses (all positive) to the second WGLC, albeit with several detailed reviews coming in earlier. There was no controversy about particular points nor decisions where the consensus was particularly rough. Document Quality There exist several implementations. Multicast CoAP is sufficiently entrenched that we didn't do a survey of existing implementations. For these, the document provides information that will aid in their further development; several implementers have contributed reviews. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Carsten Bormann. The Responsible Area Director is Mike Bishop. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
