Subject: [core] [IANA #773750] Last Call: <draft-ietf-core-observe-14.txt> (Observing Resources in CoAP) to Proposed Standard

From: "Pearl Liang via RT" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 04:42:55 +0000

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IESG/Authors/WG Chairs:

IANA has reviewed draft-ietf-core-observe-14.  Authors should review the comments and/or questions below.  Please report any inaccuracies and respond to any questions as soon as possible.

We received the following comments/questions from the IANA's reviewer:

IANA understands that, upon approval of this document, there is a single action which IANA must complete.

In the CoAP Option Numbers subregistry of the Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) Parameters registry located at:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/core-parameters/

a new option number will be registered as follows:

Number: 6
Name: Observe
Reference: [ RFC-to-be ]

Please note that IANA cannot reserve specific values. However, early allocation is available for some types of registrations. For more information, please see RFC 7120. 

IANA understands that this is the only action required to be completed upon approval of this document.

Note:  The actions requested in this document will not be completed until the document has 
been approved for publication as an RFC. This message is only to confirm what actions will 
be performed.  

Thanks,

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On Fri Jul 25 14:04:05 2014, [email-masked] wrote:
> 
> The IESG has received a request from the Constrained RESTful Environments
> WG (core) to consider the following document:
> - 'Observing Resources in CoAP'
>   <draft-ietf-core-observe-14.txt> as Proposed Standard
> 
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
> [email-masked] mailing lists by 2014-08-08. Exceptionally, comments may be
> sent to [email-masked] instead. In either case, please retain the
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> 
> Abstract
> 
> 
>    CoAP is a RESTful application protocol for constrained nodes and
>    networks.  The state of a resource on a CoAP server can change over
>    time.  This document specifies a simple protocol extension for CoAP
>    that enables CoAP clients to "observe" resources, i.e., to retrieve
>    a representation of a resource and keep this representation updated
>    by the server over a period of time.  The protocol follows a best-
>    effort approach for sending new representations to clients and
>    provides eventual consistency between the state observed by each
>    client and the actual resource state at the server.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The file can be obtained via
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-core-observe/
> 
> IESG discussion can be tracked via
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-core-observe/ballot/
> 
> 
> No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
> 
>